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...CITY DESERVES TO BE called the mausoleum of Soviet communism, it is Ulyanovsk, the industrial center on the Volga where Vladimir Lenin, ne Ulyanov, was born in 1870. It contains a varied assortment of Lenin shrines, from his parents' apartments to his classroom to a modernistic museum complex on a bluff overlooking the river. The city is so resistant to political and economic reform that some Russians refer to it as a "communist preserve." It has been ruled since 1990, except for a brief interval, by its "Red Governor," Yuri Goryachev, who was once First Secretary of the region...
VULGAR ON THE VOLGA...
Presidential elections are set for 1996, and Russia's VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY is already campaigning. During stops on a 20-day cruise along the Volga last August, he spoke to crowds, cannily tailoring his words for each region and ethnic group. But to Canadian free-lance journalist Jennifer Gould, 27, who interviewed him on the cruise, he was rambling and revealing. Their conversations appear in Playboy magazine's March edition. Topics ranged from Russia (``We need democracy. But some violence is required.'') to Clinton (``one of the founders of the decline of America'') and Arafat (``I don't like his clothes...
Since the organization's debut, Gorbachev and Wiederkehr have met with a parade of environmentalists to select pilot projects. Among the possibilities: a program to coordinate efforts to clean up the Volga River; an effort to protect the pristine Plitvicka Lakes National Park on the border between Serbia and Croatia from the fighting that has ravaged the Balkans; the establishment of a Geneva-based industry council that would help prevent chemical catastrophes like the gas leak that killed 2,000 in Bhopal, India; and an initiative to focus attention on problems that involve the use and disposal of toxic products...
...landed his heaviest blows last week on Rutskoi. Charging that the Vice President "is categorically not in agreement with reform," Yeltsin said he intends to dismiss him from his position as supervisor of agricultural programs. Rutskoi has also discovered that his armored Mercedes has been replaced with an old Volga sedan, his security detail cut back sharply and his personal physician dismissed...