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Leningrad-born Anatol Ugorski has emerged from the eclipse of his motherland's shadow. He has signed his first recording with Deutsche Grammophon, recording works by Beethoven (Diabelli Variations), Mussorgsky (Pictures at an Exhibition), and Stravinsky (Trois Movements de Petrouchka...
...Tokyo's terms: the islands returned in exchange for a formal peace treaty, never signed after World War II, and financial support for the comatose Russian economy. Opposed is an unruly chorus of nationalist politicians who threaten to overthrow President Boris Yeltsin if he surrenders any more of the "motherland." They are allied with conservative military men, still smarting from the "loss" of Eastern Europe, who fear that return of the islands will threaten the defense of the Russian Far East...
Every black American who journeys to Africa seeks an answer to that question -- and I was no different during the 2 1/2 years I spent as a Time correspondent on the continent I think of as the motherland...
...black reporter recalls the years he spent on the continent he considers his motherland...
...events of live television by satellite. The very definition of news was rewritten -- from something that has happened to something that is happening at the very moment you are hearing of it. A war involving the fiercest air bombardment in history unfolded in real time -- before the cameras. The motherland of communism overthrew its leaders and their doctrine -- before the cameras. To a considerable degree, especially in Moscow, momentous things happened precisely because they were being seen as they happened...