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SUSPENDED. MARIE-REINE LE GOUGNE, 41, and DIDIER GAILHAGUET, 48, French skating officials who, the International Skating Union ruled, colluded to fix the result of the pairs event at the Salt Lake City Olympics in February by ranking the Russian pair ahead of the Canadians; from any involvement with international skating for three years; in Lausanne, Switzerland...
DIED. ALEXANDER LEBED, 52, blunt, charismatic Soviet general instrumental in defending the Russian parliament against a 1991 coup by communist hard-liners; in a helicopter crash in Siberia. When President Gorbachev was taken hostage by hard-liners seeking to overturn his reforms, Lebed, a hero of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, offered what turned out to be critical advice to emerging leader Boris Yeltsin: to forcefully rally the confused Russian troops by declaring himself the military's supreme commander. Though the regional governor's national visibility had waned in recent years, he remained a popular figure...
DIED. YEVGENY SVETLANOV, 73, Russian conductor, composer and pianist, who made his conducting debut at the Bolshoi in 1955; in Moscow. Known for his interpretations of Russian compositions, he was recently dismissed from his 35-year post as chief conductor of the State Symphony Orchestra for working too much overseas...
...DIED. ALEXANDER IVANOVICH LEBED, 52, governor of Russia's Krasnoyarski region, ex-army general and a 1996 Russian presidential contender, in a helicopter crash; in Siberia. An Afghan war veteran, Lebed protected Boris Yeltsin during the hard-liners' coup in 1991, ended bloodshed in Moldova's breakaway Transdniester region in July 1992 and signed the peace accord that ended the first Chechen war, in August 1996. DIED. LUNG SI-HUNG, 72, known for his portrayal of the master-chef dad in the 1994 Taiwanese hit, Eat Drink Man Woman; in Taipei. Lung achieved international acclaim for his roles in Pushing...
...leaders of the lush, beautiful Black Sea enclave of Abkhazia, without official recognition by any country and still in ruins after a bloody war of independence with Georgia 10 years ago, have a modest though eccentric dream: to become the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Marshall Islands, an associated state, living independently but under Moscow's protective wing. Russia shows no sign of sharing this dream, Abkhaz Prime Minister Anri Dzhergenia concedes. But right now Abkhazia has a more pressing problem: the threat of another war with Georgia. If that happens, Abkhaz officials say, blame the U.S. military advisers...