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...Nikolai Statkevich tried to buck the system in 2001: he ran for President of Belarus. The country calls itself democratic, but President Alexander Lukashenko, in power for 11 years, runs it like the last dictatorship in Europe and brooks no challenges to his neo-Stalinist rule. That's why Statkevich, 49, leader of the opposition Social Democratic party, found himself confined to a prison barrack in the town of Baranovichi, 120 km west of Minsk, the nation's capital. Last March, the government sentenced him to three years of forced labor for "resisting the authorities and obstructing traffic" during...
...Yanka Kupala State Academic Theater in Minsk because of her involvement with the FT production. Director Vladimir Shcherban, 30, was suspended from his job at the same theater for the same reason. "The state dismisses us as so many miserable failures and griping misfits," says FT coordinator and playwright Nikolai Khalezin, 40. The Moscow Art Theater is rehearsing his play Here I Come, but the work will not be performed in his own country. "No production is allowed unless cleared by censors," he says. Last March the FT announced a playwriting contest on its website; so far, 321 works have...
...Deng left France to study at Moscow's newly established Sun Yat-sen University. He and other Chinese students attended classes in Marxist social evolution, the history of revolutions and basic military training. Among heroes of the Russian Revolution who came to visit were Leon Trotsky and Nikolai Bukharin. Whether or not it made an impression at the time, Deng's six-month stay coincided with the end of Lenin's New Economic Policy, which included a return to some private agricultural production and denationalization of much small-scale industry...
...Ministers. "There are few statesmen who have had such influence on international affairs and social change," said United Nations Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar at a memorial service at Stockholm's city hall. Said U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, who met privately with Soviet Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov to discuss bilateral concerns shortly after the funeral: "Palme was a man of compassion. We share your grief...
After Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, 67, was abruptly removed last September as chief of the Soviet general staff, he was variously reported to be in charge of a military academy or a command in the western U.S.S.R. Some analysts interpreted the ouster as a rebuke to a strong-willed career soldier who refused to tailor his views to prevailing political sentiment. Ogarkov's call to intensify the development of nonnuclear weaponry and his public hectoring of the U.S. had apparently put him at odds with the ruling Politburo's aging members. But Communist Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev has been making...