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...Among them was TIME Contributing Editor Mark Vishniak, then a Social Revolutionary delegate from the district of Yaroslavl. A journalist and lawyer, Vishniak helped draw up the electoral laws for the Constituent Assembly, was elected its secretary. The author of some two dozen books on Russian affairs, he was the senior member of TIME'S Russian desk for many years, now advises it from semi-retirement...
They sounded like practicing Russians. At a Denver press conference. Archbishop Nikodim of Yaroslavl and Rostov, who also led the Russian Orthodox delegation to the third Assembly of the World Council of Churches in New Delhi, boasted that "we come to you from a socialist state, where our people are creating a new, dynamic society. The Russian Orthodox Church supports the aspirations of our people for friendship with all peoples of the earth." At the close of the board meeting, the Russians will divide into smaller groups, spend most of their three weeks in the U.S. visiting churches across...
Labor unrest also took place in Grozny, an oil center in the north Caucasus; Donetsk, center of the Donbas coal fields; Yaroslavl, in the Upper Volga, where workers in a tire factory staged a sitdown strike; and even Moscow, where there were mass protest meetings at the Moskvich compact-car plant. Khrushchev himself seems to have drawn the lesson of these events. Said he last July in his native village of Kalinovka: "We have carried out a great revolution to give the people the good things of life. If these things are not available, people will say: 'What...
...Catholic bishops from The Netherlands in the stiff white ruffs of a Van Dyck painting. Among the bearded divines from the East were the Orthodox Archbishop of Thyateira in a brocade cape of gold and scarlet, the Metropolitan of Carthage, and the Most Rev. Nikodim, Archbishop of Yaroslavl and Rostov, representing the Patriarch of Moscow. Anglican bishops came from New York, Gibraltar, Amritsar in the Punjab, Borneo, Jordan, the Sudan and Quincy, Ill. A congregation of 4,000 was waiting for them...
...Body to Science. Everywhere Custine went-St. Petersburg, Moscow, Nizhni Novgorod, Yaroslavl-he found terror and its agent, the secret police. For fear of them and their informers, the Russians had become a nation of liars: "A sincere man . . . would pass for mad." For hatred of them, that could not be expressed, the Russians had become a society of mockers: "The slave . . . consoles himself for his yoke by quietly making fun of it." From the highest noble to the lowest serf, all Russians were equally in fear of the regime's power; all human life was equally worthless...