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...production value: 162 million rubles, or $260 million at the official Soviet conversion rate). Elektrosila has boosted its foreign sales from less than 15% of its production a few years ago to about one-fourth of its current output. "We are now the masters of our own castle," says Valentina Murinas, 50, the factory's chief economist. Elektrosila's new spirit of enterprise extends to its rank-and-file workers, who now receive pay raises based on the plant's profitability. Next year they may be able to buy shares in an employee stock-ownership plan...
...tapped the cinema's capacity for lying with a straight face. If you can create a vision onscreen, then it's true. At the start, Baron Munchausen (John Neville) strides onstage to recount his hoodwinking of a sulky Sultan (Peter Jeffrey), his dalliance with the Queen of the Moon (Valentina Cortese), his flirtation with the goddess Venus (Uma Thurman), his captivity inside a giant fish, and his long-odds battle with the Turkish army. Except for young Sally (Sarah Polley), his listeners don't know if he's telling the truth. But his viewers know; Gilliam has used the magic...
Sergei, now 53, lives with his second wife Valentina in a Moscow apartment building that is reserved for the elite. Transferred from his high-security job in 1968, Sergei serves as a deputy director of a scientific institute. Sergei insists that he wanted his story to be published not to glorify his father but to correct the "fabrications" that have appeared. "Many people may find it hard to believe," he says, "but Nikita Sergeyevich was a very trusting man, sincere almost to the point of naivete...
...electric mixer," says Physics Teacher Valentina Mityushova...
Last week's exhibition brought those works into public view, marking another milestone in Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost campaign. "Heavenly things," said Valentina Chagall upon catching her first look at some of her husband's earliest paintings. "My only regret is that he could not be here...