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...missile fired from a Russian Su-25 attack jet on a testing range went off course and narrowly missed an apartment complex and a nuclear power plant, the ITAR-Tass news agency said today. The missile, launched on Friday from Voronezh, about 350 miles south of Moscow, reportedly landed just 2.7 miles from the Novovoronezhskaya power station and only 660 feet from the apartment buildings, injuring one man. Regional Gov. Alexander Kovalyov complained on national television that he has repeatedly asked for the range to be moved. Last Friday's TIME Daily MONEY
...alarm clock rings at 5:30 a.m. Nadezhda Vaktin, a 41-year-old hairdresser, heads straight for the kitchen of her family's four-room apartment in a ramshackle high-rise in the industrial city of Voronezh, 340 miles southwest of Moscow. Before the water supply goes off at 9 -- for the next 10 hours -- Nadezhda must prepare breakfast, lunch and dinner for the family of four, wash dishes and clothes and fill four buckets for drinking. Husband Alexander rushes to clean up before daughter Larisa and son Alexei commandeer the bathroom...
Since the Vaktins have no car, rising fuel prices do not directly affect them. But the cost of train and plane tickets has curbed any vacation plans; a single train ticket from Voronezh to Moscow has jumped from 10 rubles to 230. Holidays are strictly limited to the family's dacha 16 miles away, which they reach by a special bus costing 14 rubles...
Such radicalism would not be possible without Gorbachev's glasnost. But the new openness in the Soviet media has also exposed irrational superstitions reminiscent of the last days of Czar Nicholas II. The TASS news agency reports with a straight face that aliens stepped out of UFOs in Voronezh. On TV, psychic healers appear frequently with supposed cures for everything from obesity to detached retinas. As in all periods of great stress, the Christian churches in Russia have seldom been fuller...
...This story has not quite appeared in the Soviet media. But a report carried by the news agency TASS last week told of a similarly dressed, three- eyed space creature landing in late September in the town of Voronezh, 300 miles southeast of Moscow. There it zapped a 16-year-old boy with a gun that made him disappear temporarily. Pelted with questions from skeptics, TASS stood by its story. Said an agency official huffily: "It is not April Fools' today." Sovietskaya Kultura, a Communist Party paper dedicated to the arts, ran the story, claiming it was following "the golden...