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Even more remarkable is the fact that The Master and Margarita has become the most talked about work in Russia today. It was published in two installments in the liberal monthly Moskva, of which Soviet readers have already bought 150,000 copies (the novel has yet to appear in book form). Soviet critics, many of whom have declared it a masterpiece, discuss it endlessly. Bulgakov wrote six plays and five novels, but The Master and Margarita, which critics knew existed but had never seen in print, is perhaps his most daring work. Its publication for the first time in Russia...
Charley Horse. As they deliberated, six foreign ministers of the Warsaw Pact nations-once known as Russia and its satellites-met in the gothic Spiridonovka Palace near the banks of the Moskva River. And what seemed to be on their minds? How to keep Rumania's nationalist-minded government from bolting, for one thing. Some sort of rapprochement with the West, for another. And what to tell Charles de Gaulle next week when he arrives in Moscow to talk about European unity...
...Kremlin has lifted the midnight liquor curfew, and on New Year's Eve Muscovites can get oiled until a highly reactionary 5 a.m. Hotels, coffeehouses and restaurants (there are no bars as such) are booked solid and have laid on massive spreads ($13.75 a plate at the Moskva restaurant) and lavish shows (seven different dance bands at the Ukraine). For home celebrators, 8,000 tons of fresh fruit and 1,000,000 bottles of Crimean champagne and wine have been shipped to the capital's markets, and a new state catering service called "Spring" advertised in Vechernaya Moskva...
...sunset, Khrushchev and Ustinov landed at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport, where a ZIL limousine waited. The long black car whipped across the Lenin Hills, along Kremlevskaya Quai, where lights glittered on the Moskva River...
...Moscow last week, the newspaper Vechernyaya Moskva published an interim look at the work of the State Spelling Commission, which is preparing a new report on language reform to be issued next year. The major drive will be against useless double letters in Russian words; thus kommunist will become komunist, appetit, apetit, and so on. Of 1,200 Russian words containing double letters, only twelve will be retained. Among them: Russia and other proper names. The soft sign following sibilants at the end of words will disappear, as did the hard sign following consonants, and 16 rules of hyphenation...