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...side, either Alexei Yagudin, a three-time world champion, or his teammate Evgeni Plushenko, the reigning world gold medalist, will probably keep up the golden streak of Russian champions established in the past three Winter Games. Yagudin, who trains in the U.S., is a passionate performer and is eager to redeem his fifth-place finish in Nagano, where he was laid low by the flu. Plushenko is just as accomplished but far less polished. His program music is usually a bewildering pastiche of movie sound tracks, and the choreography is just as disjointed, but he never fails to impress with...
...Slutskaya is a natural and powerful jumper. At last year's world championships, she strung together - and successfully landed - three jumps in a row. But her approach to Utah wasn't always a smooth glide. Just two years ago the two-time European champion failed to qualify for the Russian world team and seriously considered retiring: "I ask myself, What do I want to do? Go back to school? Never. I love figure skating. I can't live without it." If she keeps her jumps in control, Slutskaya may well become the first Russian ladies' gold medalist...
...strong singles teams, however, may have come at the expense of Russia's traditionally favored pairs and ice dancers. For the first time in years, the Russian entrants face formidable competition. Canadian pair Jamie Sale and David Pelletier could snatch gold from reigning Olympic silver medalists Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, while three couples - from France, Italy and Canada - could finish ahead of Irina Lobacheva and Ilya Averbukh, the leading Russian ice-dancers...
...Deadline set by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe for the agreed removal of all Russian troops and munitions from Moldova...
...journalists are not the only ones who run afoul of the law. On Christmas Day, after several unsuccessful attempts, the state was finally able to convict Navy captain and military journalist Grigory Pasko on treason charges. Pasko had leaked information to the press about nuclear-waste dumping in the Russian far east. Putin denied any involvement in the case: it was, he said, a "purely juridical affair" and invited Pasko to request a pardon. This was easier said than done, as a few days after the Pasko verdict the President abolished his pardons commission, founded by Mikhail Gorbachev and composed...