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...OFFICIALS HASTENED TO SAY, ANOTHER Chernobyl. But radiation leaks from an exploding uranium tank at the Tomsk-7 chemical plant in western Siberia did constitute the most serious nuclear accident since the 1986 Ukrainian reactor fire that spewed deadly radiation over Russia, Belarus and much of Western Europe, killing hundreds. Minor pollution and no casualties were reported at Tomsk-7, which lies 1,800 miles east of Moscow and produced, until recently, lethal plutonium for nuclear weapons. Environmental groups, which claim that the Tomsk incident was more serious than reported and blame it on slack safety standards, are calling...
...party functionary, Ligachev has earned a reputation as an efficient, incorruptible manager. After a four-year stint in Moscow as a deputy director of the propaganda and party organs for the Russian Republic, he spent the Brezhnev years as local party boss in the Siberian city of Tomsk. Brought back to Moscow by then Party Leader Yuri Andropov in 1983, Ligachev was named to Gorbachev's Politburo two years later. All along, Ligachev has insisted he does not oppose perestroika. In an extraordinary interview with the Paris daily Le Monde in December he said, "I know what you write about...
...Foreign Relations, which trains young diplomats and journalists, Vladimir reportedly plays the piano and banjo and likes Western popular music and hard rock. Some sources say Chernenko has a second son, possibly from an earlier marriage, who works for the provincial propaganda department in the Siberian city of Tomsk...
...Christian courage do filter through. The study criticizes a troublesome archbishop in Vladimir and Suzdal for ordering his clergymen "to preach more frequently and not be lazy." Pointing to a disturbing revival of traditional holiday visits by priests, the author of the report lauds one council functionary in Tomsk who "took steps to curtail such activities" after he noted that Lenten visits created a "sensation" in villages and provoked "unwholesome interest" among unbelievers...
...Institute of Foreign Relations. To help get their children through the rigorous entrance exams, many parents hire private tutors at five rubles ($7.65) an hour. Others bribe admissions officers. In a case reported by Izvestiya last month, the woman in charge of a scientific prep school in Tomsk got an eight-year prison sentence for selling admissions. According to Izvestiya, she "accepted almost anything as a bribe, from mink coats to pails of berries...