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Composed in 1932, Dmitri Shostakovich's second and last opera is one of the finest scores of the 20th century, a passionate and bawdy setting of Nikolai Leskov's 1865 short story. This tale of a frustrated, lascivious and ultimately homicidal rural housewife and her working-class lover boosted Shostakovich's art to a new level of technical assurance and emotional maturity, and at age 25 he appeared well on his way to becoming the most important operatic composer of the century. Then, in 1936, the Soviet authorities denounced the popular Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk as "muddle instead of music...
...future L.D.P. leader was not always popular among his classmates. One of them, Nikolai Salatov, recalls a student-court session in which two younger pupils were put on trial for stealing car parts from an automobile repair shop. Zhirinovsky acted as prosecutor, and even though such pilfering was common, he turned the proceedings into a show trial, delivering a shrill speech about the need to punish the boys. Enraged, his peers waited until after class and beat...
First stop for the L.D.P. convoy was the Shchelkovo District Administrative Office, located on a central square dominated by a huge statue of Lenin. With a pack of a dozen journalists at his heels, he paraded into the office of Nikolai Pashin, the head of the local administration. Wiping his face with his hands, tweaking his nose and interrupting his host several times to give orders to his aides, he listened as Pashin trotted out a list of ills afflicting the community. No problem was so large that Zhirinovsky wasn't ready with an instant solution. The district's atrocious...
...director, General Nikolai Golushko, claims that his officers arrested more than 20 foreign spies last year, including one Russian who had caused major damage to national security. "If the CIA had discontinued its activities in Russia," Golushko's spokesman said last week, the agency "would have been closed down." The implication is that Moscow did not make a public fuss about its arrests and cannot understand why Washington is doing so with the Ames case. "This incident," says Yuri Kobaladze, press spokesman for the Foreign Intelligence Service, "does not concern relations between our two countries...
...Duma, parliament's lower house, celebrated the pain-relieving approach by voting its members a pay increase, free travel on planes and trains, free apartments in Moscow, free telephones and 24-hour limousine service. "Are you crazy?" demanded populist politician Nikolai Travkin, pointing to the government deficit already in the trillions of rubles. The other parliamentarians ignored...