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...such coherence or vision applies to the new Russian economy. Since Boris Yeltsin began shock treatment last January, the result has been a bundle of contradictions. In the industrial city of Rostov, the mammoth Rostselmash factory still makes grain harvesters that no one wants. The clunkers lose up to 15% of the grain as they pound rich topsoil into brick-hard earth. Yet Yeltsin visited the plant last summer and personally guaranteed tens of millions of rubles in state credits to keep the communist relic afloat...
Andrei Chikatilo, the Russian serial sex killer, was sentenced to death by shooting in the city of Rostov-on-Don, convicted of the brutal murders of 52 women and children during a 12-year rampage through southern Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. The prosecution presented chilling evidence of how the quiet, bespectacled former schoolteacher smashed his victims' eardrums, gouged out their eyes and then feasted on their sexual organs. As the sentence was read out, the courtroom erupted in turmoil, with one mother yelling, "Give him to us! Let us have...
Andrei Chikatilo -- identified only as "Ch" in the press until his trial began last week -- was arrested in November 1990 after one of the biggest manhunts in the Soviet Union's history. The suspect, 56, is a father and grandfather from Rostov-on-Don who worked as a teacher of literature before accusations that he molested a student led to his dismissal. He is charged with killing 53 young men and women in 12 years but has confessed to even more. The trial is expected to last several weeks or months; if convicted, Chikatilo is likely to get the death...
...Russia, complete with chartered Aeroflot planes, for 14 leading U.S. investment bankers. After a two-day meeting, presided over by Strauss in Moscow, the group split up and fanned out over the country. They are currently visiting such relatively remote spots as Perm and Yekaterinburg in the Urals, Rostov-on-Don in the North Caucasus and Saratov on the Volga...
...stunning losses. On June 7 German forces supplemented by troops from Romania began a monthlong final offensive against the great Crimean port of Sevastopol, pounding it with Luftwaffe raids before sending infantry units to wage bloody street battles. By the beginning of July, the city collapsed. The fall of Rostov-on-Don, the so-called gateway to the Caucasus, was even more ominous. The siege was embarrassingly brief, and whole Soviet units reportedly fled in panic. Suddenly the way south to the oil fields of Baku was open. With German armies simultaneously dashing to cut off the Soviet supply line...