Word: vladimir
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...Vladimir Ragulin...
Then there is the international preoccupation with a benign Utopia -- Europe's reaction against the horror of war -- whose "spiritual" symbol was glass architecture. Besides the familiar Constructivist icons, such as the sculptor Vladimir Tatlin's wooden model for a giant tower that was to commemorate the Third Communist International, there are fantasies by much- lesser-known artists -- the outstanding one being a German, Wenzel Hablik, whose radiant glass towers and many-colored domes resemble designs for the New Jerusalem...
Some candidates seem to have big changes in mind. Vladimir Ragulin of Adams House, for example, proposed "a discussion on the future of the council. Either it is going to change, or we don't need...
...have what German democrats in the Weimar period woefully lacked: forceful, popular leaders like Yeltsin -- who on the whole has been more democrat than autocrat -- St. Petersburg Mayor Anatoli Sobchak and Moscow Mayor Gavril Popov. Authoritarians as yet have no leader with any comparable clout. But a lawyer named Vladimir Zhirinovsky did run third in last June's Russian presidential election despite -- or because of -- his wild ideas (he now speaks of solving food shortages by invading the former East Germany with an army brandishing nuclear weapons). Says economist Timofeyev: "Right now, Zhirinovsky seems like a fool, but we have...
...discredited national parliament, they joke, is that in Perm there are no electronic voting machines. Radical reformers, in fact, want Yeltsin to expand presidential control over regional executive bodies and appoint his own administrative representative in Perm to see that reforms are carried out. Contends local political columnist Vladimir Vinichenko: "We must use some authoritarian methods to ensure the victory of democracy...