Word: mordovia
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Feeding the cows, cleaning out the pigpen and weeding the potato beds - that's the routine Irina Zhbanova grew up with in Perkhlyai, a desolate village of 740 souls in the depressed Russian republic of Mordovia, 600 km southeast of Moscow. But for the past three years, Zhbanova, 14, has been following another daily routine: for two hours early in the morning and two more after school, she practices her aces and backhands, flat serves and chip shots, footwork and block volleys. "Trying harder makes up for my starting in tennis too late," she says. "All right...
Omeljan Pritsak, Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History and director of the Ukrainian Research Institute, said he was gratified and surprised that Soviet authorities had permitted Karavansky to emigrate so soon after his release from Mordovia Prison. The dates of his lectures have not been set, he added...
...Mordovia is the prison where Valentyn Moroz, a Ukrainian historian, was held until last April. Then, after Harvard invited him to join the Ukrainian Research Institute, Soviet authorities included Moroz in a deal that sent Moroz and four other dissidents to the United States in exchange for two Soviet spies...
...another Ukrainian dissident invited to come to Harvard has been released from Mordovia. Three times in the last two years, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures invited Sviatoslav I. Karavansky, a translator, poet and literary critic from Odessa to give two lectures on "problems in the translation of classical English texts in Ukrainian...
Karavansky wrote back accepting the invitation, but it's not all clear whether he will be able to leave the Soviet Union. Though out of Mordovia, he is now in internal exile and prevented from returning to the Ukraine...