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...reported to have fought bitterly with her son, a Moscow doctor. A few months later, her daughter, a geologist who spends most of her time on Kamchatka Peninsula in the Soviet far east, announced that she wanted no contact with her mother. Svetlana and Olga moved to Tbilisi, in Stalin's home republic of Georgia. In Gori, his birthplace, many still revere the dictator who brutally ruled the Soviet Union for 24 years...
...Svetlana, who has been living in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi and reportedly quarreling with her two Soviet-born children, seems to have had yet another change of heart. Last week the U.S. embassy in Moscow confirmed that she had visited the consular section. While the details of the visit are unknown, Svetlana is believed to have sought a visa to go West...
Shevardnadze's zeal is well remembered by Soviet Physician Galina Nikolayevna Borodin, a San Francisco-based emigre who lived in the party secretary's household near Tbilisi between 1973 and 1977. Borodin recalls that in the '60s and early '70s, Georgia was so rife with corruption that the only way to gain entrance to the republic's prestigious Medical Institute was to bribe the rector. "Before Shevardnadze," Borodin says, "everything could be bought or sold." She adds, "He was very oppressive, but he oppressed people fairly." Shevardnadze's toughness earned him some enemies. Borodin recalls an assassination attempt...
...temperance movement has even reached that most bibulous of regions, Georgia, where no meal is complete without wine. A group of foreign journalists in Tbilisi was recently toasted with fruit juice, to the disgust of a local official who declared the ban "an insult to the tradition of Georgian hospitality." The new rules appear to be having some effect. With police now on the lookout for drunks, plumbers and carpenters seem less ready to insist on vodka as payment "under the table," which is where they often ended up by midday. "Now they're sober all day," says one Muscovite...
Last month the authorities moved Svetlana out of Moscow, in an apparent effort to insulate her from contact with diplomats and other foreigners to whom she might complain. Mother and daughter were dispatched 1,000 miles south to Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, not far from Stalin's birthplace. Svetlana was given a modest apartment but no car, dacha or any of the other perquisites that families of the Soviet elite enjoy...