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...Russia in danger of falling apart? Last week Dmitry Medvedev, the head of the presidential administration, warned that Russia could disappear if the political élite did not "consolidate" around President Vladimir Putin. "The disintegration of the [Soviet Union] would seem like a kindergarten in comparison," he told the magazine Expert. A day later, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov mused in the tabloid Moskovsky Komsomolets about 2008, when Putin is required to step down. "I can't see anyone other than Putin" running the country, Luzhkov said. After uprisings in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan, some fear for Russia's own future...
...opium from India and Pakistan and is ruthless in his pursuit of communists, a label he gives to whomever he takes a disliking. After Field uncovers other cases of Russian women horribly stabbed to death?all connected to Lu?he begins to worry that Orlov's beautiful neighbor, Natasha Medvedev, may be next...
...Yeltsin ruled out unconditional withdrawal, saying that a "total slaughter" would sweep Chechnya if the Russians left, which is surprising since Grozny was razed, and casualties mounted only after the Russian army invaded. Although Yeltsin realizes how low he has sunk in pre-election polls, his press secretary, Sergei Medvedev, says Yeltsin refuses to "beg" Jokar Dudayev for peace, which means talks are not on the horizon. TIME'S Yuri Zarakhovich reports: "This war is destroying Russia. People aren't being paid. The Army is hungry. It's no coincidence that Russia is asking the IMF for 9 billion dollars...
...Medvedev, who helped investigate the disaster, interviewed dozens of plant officials and workers, many of whom later died of radiation poisoning. One sobering conclusion: it could easily happen again (the Soviet Union has 16 other reactors of the Chernobyl design). And in the U.S.? Because America has no such reactors, and because the accident resulted from a breathtaking level of ineptitude, ignorance and criminal negligence, Americans have little reason to fear a similar occurrence...
...What Medvedev calls the "conspiracy of silence" that had cloaked the Soviet nuclear power program in secrecy and lies for 35 years added to the human and environmental cost. In a country where nuclear accidents had never been reported, the pressure to cover up the monumental disaster at Chernobyl was enormous. Plant managers misinformed government officials, insisting that the reactor was intact. Even as the radioactive cloud was spreading over thousands of square miles of Europe, Soviet bureaucrats were still denying the accident. At the same time, Moscow bosses quashed early requests by Chernobyl officials to evacuate the area, dooming...