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Last week the renewed religious freedom that Alexi had so publicly celebrated finally became official. Culminating a two-year thaw, the Soviet parliament passed a new Law on Freedom of Conscience by a vote of 341 to 2. The statute bestowed great opportunities on believers, estimated to number as many as 131 million, who have maintained their faith despite the oppression of Lenin and his successors. But with freedom come some grievous problems, principally shortages of money, trained clergy and just about everything else needed for religious restoration. At the same time, ugly sectarian conflicts, also long repressed, are boiling...
There is also a thaw for Soviet Jews, who have long suffered a double burden of religious suppression and persecution as suspected "agents of Zionism." They are now able to take Hebrew lessons. The state has given back a number of synagogues, but few Soviet Jews remain regular worshipers. Numbers will dwindle further because of emigration, which reached an all-time high last month. Moscow's Chief Rabbi, Adolf Shayevich, says Jews no longer leave because of religious restrictions but because of economic decline and fear of anti-Semitism...
...QUEST FOR SELF-EXPRESSION: PAINTING IN MOSCOW AND LENINGRAD 1965-1990, Columbus Museum of Art. What 43 Soviet artists have been up to since the post- Stalin "thaw." Through...
...Some fear that Newtonian physics governs superpower relations: What goes up must come down. They warn that our countries' interaction has in the past been prone to wild swings between euphoria and depression, cooperation and conflict, thaw and chill. Do you see any such danger? How can we avoid such cycles? How can the recent progress be made permanent...
...frigid climate of the cold war, the U.S. and its allies barred their companies from selling high-tech wares with potential military use to the Soviet Union and the nations of Eastern Europe. But the current thaw prompted the Bush Administration last week to propose a relaxation of export controls on 43 of the 120 types of restricted products. Among them: personal computers, precision machine tools and telecommunications equipment...