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...returned to international competition and won his second world title in Rotterdam last October with what he termed a "poor performance." Today the sensitive superstar still harbors some bitterness toward certain teammates, officials and even his parents. "Many condemned me for my irresponsibility," he says. "It was my wife Svetlana who gave me encouragement to continue...
...Bilozerchev's natural gifts were nearly destroyed one night in October 1985, when he drove his father's car off a road outside Moscow after celebrating his engagement to Svetlana Serkeli with too much champagne. The bones in his left leg shattered into 40 pieces, and amputation was seriously considered...
...receive 60% of the auction prices -- 10% in pounds that they can use abroad and the rest in so-called gold rubles, which have up to five times the purchasing power of ordinary rubles. (The Soviet state will get 32%, and Sotheby's the remaining 8%.) Two relative unknowns, Svetlana Kopystiansky and her husband Igor, were stunned as Pop Singer Elton John put in a winning bid of $75,000 by telephone for a tempera landscape by Svetlana and another bid of $75,000 for a portrait in oils by Igor...
...notch comedy, tune in to Laverne and Svetlana, which depicts the hilarious mishaps of two clumsy but endearing roommates who toil endlessly in a chemical weapons factory. A classic episode has Laverne turn Svetlana in to the KGB for questioning when she begins to suspect her of sabotage. The program ends with the two reunited, raising clenched fists and singing patriotic songs...
After 21 months and two trials, former FBI Agent Richard Miller was found guilty last week of spying for the Soviet Union. A lackluster agent who was enticed into a love affair with Soviet emigre Svetlana Ogorodnikova, Miller, 49, was convicted by a Los Angeles jury of a plot to exchange information about the bureau's antispy work for $65,000 in gold and cash; his first trial last year ended in deadlock. The 20-year bureau veteran, who claimed that he was trying to salvage his career by infiltrating the KGB, faces two possible life sentences...