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Boris Titov, a human-rights activist, told radio station Ekho Moskva that young Russians who can afford to should be allowed to pay their way out of service - provided that the money goes towards improving army conditions in Russia, which are notoriously low. Others, however, point out that may only exacerbate class divisions and affect the quality of the country's soldiery. "The army is already made up of Russia's poor," says Kuznetsova. "With this kind of system, it will be full of alcoholics and invalids...
...warm weather. You enter from the GUM department store via several of the fashionable women's shops - don't be intimidated by sales staff. Lunch without wine is about $25. Tel. 929 3182. The National on the second floor of the National Hotel looks toward the Kremlin (and the Moskva Hotel). Good, though expensive, Russian food...
...finds, like a lovely white stone church with a dark green cupola, behind a wall on Bolshaya Ordynka (No. 38). It looks medieval but was built in 1912 by Alexei Shchusev, one of the most prolific architects of his time. He later designed Lenin's mausoleum and the hideous Moskva Hotel near Red Square, with its asymmetrical façade. Shchusev's career embodies the compromises that many intellectuals made during the Soviet period. And the church, now an icon-restoration workshop not officially open to the public, has its own tragic history. It was closely associated with the charities...
Glasnost has made the shortages seem even more acute. Soviet publications have lately devoted page after page to the plague of consumer shortages, documenting their intensity in editorial columns and letting readers vent their rage in letters sections. "Shortages attack us literally from all sides," complained the daily Vechernyaya Moskva. "It seems that soon it will be difficult to name an item that doesn't fall into a shortage category...
...meaning openness or public disclosure), has survived and expanded. Two weeks ago, the second edition of the magazine, now up to 184 pages, was distributed. Among the articles: details of new emigration rules and recent actions by the KGB -- subjects barely covered by the official press. Whether the Vechernaya Moskva article was intended as an official warning is unknown. What is certain is that only two years ago Grigoryants would have been bundled off to a labor camp. Instead, like the editors of the country's 8,500 approved newspapers and 1,500 magazines, he remains at liberty to test...