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...first, Milinkevich will challenge Lukashenka in the presidential elections next July. "The situation here is somewhat different [from Ukraine], but the scenarios are similar everywhere when it comes to dictatorships," he told Time. "Dictatorial regimes never admit defeat." If the President is running scared, it doesn't show. Vladimir Konoplev, a prominent Lukashenka ally, says he hasn't even heard of Milinkevich: "The name doesn't ring any bells." Some opposition activists fear that the 58-year-old physicist will be overlooked by voters, too. Pollsters say 25% of the electorate will support Lukashenka; another 20% are leaning toward...
From the outside, the mausoleum still looks impeccable, its brown marble and granite façade polished to a gleaming shine. But today Vladimir Lenin's tomb is a site of only passing interest, and the gleam from its walls reflects the lights of the shops across Red Square: Louis Vuitton, Kenzo, Chanel. "The only Muscovites who come here are showing a visitor around," says a policeman on duty near the tomb. "Always out-of-towners. You can tell from their clothes--like ours from about 15 years ago." The officer hasn't been inside to see Lenin's embalmed body...
...Soviet Union, Lenin's body retains its place of honor in Red Square, where it has lain since 1924. Now Russia's ruling élite is exhuming an old debate: whether to move Lenin's body out of the mausoleum and bury it. Georgi Poltavchenko, an aide to President Vladimir Putin, recently called for Lenin--the cause, he said, of all of Russia's troubles in the 20th century--to be removed. That was echoed by Nikita Mikhalkov, a Soviet-era film star who bemoaned the fact that "a corpse" had been turned into a "pagan spectacle...
...attention. People tend to walk or jog past the mausoleum; a young couple photographs each other in front of it, beer cans in hand. The Dikii family, visiting from Tambov, Russia, stops to talk to the policeman at the tomb. "So is he going to be buried?," the father, Vladimir, asks. With a laugh, the policeman explains that a hydraulic lift lowers the corpse into the ground every night to keep it cool. The family is impressed. They are all for keeping Lenin where he is. "He turned the country upside down," Vladimir says. "People want to have a look...
...special, trimmed-down version of the hit drama 24 over Vodafone's cellular grid. U.S. sports giant espn and Extreme Group, which produces "extreme-sports" shows, are even starting their own mobile-phone services, in part to distribute video. "This gives us a chance to drive the content," says Vladimir Edelman, director of wireless for espn Mobile. espn claims an audience of 97 million sports nuts; hooking at least some of them on a mobile service could open up fresh subscription and advertising revenues...