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...interrogation scene could have been lifted directly from a macabre novel by Abram Tertz. In a grim government building off Pushkin Square, two Russian plainclothesmen pounded away at their prisoner with 2½ hours of questions. Why, they asked, had the young logician from the Academy of Sciences been carrying a poster that read "Respect the Soviet Constitution"? Replied the prisoner: "Is it wrong to demand respect for the constitution?" Next question: "Are you directing your demand at the Soviet rulers?" Answer: "That is your suggestion. If you feel they need this advice, let them have...
...Gromyko's son, who abandoned a bright diplomatic career as Russia's embassy counselor in London to become deputy department chief of the Soviet press agency Novosti. Now he'll be reporting what Daddy and his friends do from the same building on Moscow's Pushkin Square where Leonid Brezhnev's daughter Galina does her corresponding. Presumably they both will scoop Julia Petrova, a Novosti reporter whose grandfather, Nikita Khrushchev, is not a very good news source any more...
...wintry sun. Author Gosling, art critic of London's Observer, and Photographer Colin Jones have successfully limned the luminous city built by that savage giant, Peter the Great (1672-1725), along the soggy shores of the Neva. It became the seat of the czars and of Russian culture; Pushkin...
...predominant color at the Louvre this week: red. The cause: embarrassment. Since Sept. 24, some 20,000 people a week have streamed through the museum to see 102 impressive French masterpieces on cultural exchange from Russia's Hermitage and Pushkin collections. One of those people, Art Dealer Daniel Wildenstein, at 48 an eminent authority on painting, was not so impressed. In a tart letter to Le Figaro, he cited 15 paintings as "incontestably apocryphal," which is a polite way of saying fake...
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