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...ballet laboriously tells of the Prince's (Viktor Plotnikov) search for a true Princess and his test of an unkempt but overly sensitive girl (Natasha Akhmanova) who feels a pea hidden under twenty matrresses...
...series opener is 'The Steadfast Tin Soldier,' in which the Tin Soldier (Viktor Plotnikov) pursues a Paper Ballerina (Larissa Ponomarenko) as a Jack-in-the-Box (Yuri Yanowski) tries to thwart their budding love by throwing the Tin Soldier out the window...
Yeltsin's illness cast doubts on whether he will be able to attend the scheduled meeting with the presidents of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia. A decision is expected tomorrow on whether the Russians will go ahead with the summit, possibly with Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin presiding if Yeltsin is unable to attend. In either case, the meeting will be largely symbolic. The move is designed to quiet Yeltsin's critics in the Russian parliament who say that Russia has been left out of peace negotiations...
THERE WAS FIDEL CASTRO, WEARing for the first time in Havana a blue suit instead of his trademark fatigues, on his feet for five hours praising both socialism and multinational corporations in a bravura if not altogether convincing performance. And Viktor Chernomyrdin, the Prime Minister of Russia, taking questions in Moscow's White House on topics ranging from the extent of government corruption to his relationship with Boris Yeltsin. And Do Muoi, Vietnam's Communist Party chief, asking for more foreign investment and affirming that it would be just fine if the path to pure communism first made the Vietnamese...
Yeltsin may be looking over his shoulder from his hospital bed. If he were unable to perform his duties as president, rising political star and number two man Viktor Chernomyrdin would take his place, Kohan notes. "It's interesting that Chernomyrdin's press secretary was the first one to announce that Yeltsin was fine and the prime minister would not be taking over for him. The whole thing has a bit of "the lady doth protest too much" quality...