Word: moscow
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Starovoitova's killing, on the staircase of her St. Petersburg apartment, appeared to be a professional piece of work. The killers tracked her from Moscow, and were not fooled by a last-minute change of her travel plans. Security sources say the hit bore the marks of the special services, Russia's blanket term for the security police and intelligence bodies. The sources speculate that the killers, reportedly a man and a woman, were either moonlighting security police or former operatives now working for the underworld...
...dramatic shifts in style and temperament through the century. The collection contains a recording of Vladimir Horowitz playing the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 during World War II. The performance is fanatical and wild--in sharp contrast to Van Cliburn's rendition, recorded after his famed competition win in Moscow in 1958, which is tender, lyrical and full of the charm that captivated the Russians. Similarly, Great Pianists traces the varying interpretations of Chopin through the century--from Ignaz Friedman (tempestuous, uncontrolled) to Artur Rubinstein (cool, modern and free of excess) to Claudio Arrau (full, rich, warm). Given enough time...
...retire at age 57 in 1971, leaving him plenty of time for such adventures as retracing a flight across Siberia that he had made during the war. A lifelong Democrat (his father had been a Franklin Roosevelt confidant), Watson served for two years as Jimmy Carter's ambassador to Moscow...
...Without a handout from the IMF, though, domestic pressure may yet push Moscow to crank up its printing press. "Primakov will have to print new money," says Zarakhovich. "There's nothing left to sell...
Money can be such a distasteful topic that Russia's Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov avoided asking for any when he met with Michel Camdessus. The IMF head left Moscow Wednesday making positive noises about Primakov's "pragmatism" and promised to return in January, but he signed no checks. Although Russia is desperate to get the IMF to release a $4 billion loan that has been withheld out of concern over Moscow's economic intentions, Primakov used the meeting as a fence-mending exercise. "The last meeting between the two sides was disastrous because Russian officials started shouting that they wouldn...