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Pretty much everywhere is a long way from the Presnyakov brothers' hometown of Yekaterinburg deep in the Ural Mountains. But that's O.K. "A life on the go adds grist to our impression mill," says Oleg Presnyakov, 37, as he and his brother, Vladimir, 32, packed for a trip to Berlin to attend an opening of their 2003 play, Playing the Victim. It's a good thing the duo don't mind life on the road. Their increasing popularity as two of the world's hottest young playwrights has made itineraries like Moscow to Sydney via Tokyo, or Boston...
...France's impasse over youth job contracts: the French government should pay for a group of student leaders to spend a couple of weeks in Yekaterinburg. It wouldn't cost much, since there's now a cheap direct flight to and from Paris operated by Ural Airlines (slogan: your dreams. our wings.) Yekaterinburg is Russia's fifth largest city, about the size of Marseilles and Lyons combined. Assuming the French students have an open mind, they should be astonished, unsettled and perhaps a little ashamed of what they find there. The under-25s in Yekaterinburg dress much the same...
...DIED. URAL ALEXIS JOHNSON, 88, U.S. diplomat; in Raleigh, North Carolina. Nearly as enduring as the mountain range after which he was named, Johnson's career spanned more than four decades and encompassed ambassadorships to Czechoslovakia, Thailand and Japan, a stint as Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs during the Cuban missile crisis and service as chief U.S. negotiator under Nixon at the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks...
YEKATERINBURG, RUSSIA: Despite failing health and a dismal standing in the polls, Boris Yeltsin has decided to seek a second term as president of Russia. "I am sure I can bring the country through troubles, anxiety and uncertainty," Yeltsin said in an announcement speech to crowds in his Ural Mountain hometown. Facing steadily rising unpopularity over the state of the Russian economy and his conduct of the war in Chechnya, Yeltsin is seeking to appeal to voters as the only acceptable alternative to communist and nationalist candidates that he says would turn back from reforms. "I spend sleepless nights analyzing...
...DEATH OF COMRADE NICHOLAS Romanov was nasty and brutish. In 1918 the last Czar of Russia was a prisoner of the Ural Regional Soviet in the Siberian city of Ekaterinburg. With him were his German-born wife, the Czarina Alexandra; their four daughters, the Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Marie and Anastasia, and hemophiliac son, the Czarevich Alexis; the family doctor, Eugene Botkin; and three servants...