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That is certainly true of the overseas espionage organization, the Foreign Intelligence Service, known by the Russian initials SVR and headed by Yevgeni Primakov, which reports directly to President Boris Yeltsin. It was the first segment of the old KGB to open for business on its own in October 1991. The SVR took over most of the spies and analysts from the parent organization...
...equivalent of 30 cents a ticket they get a taste of American-style showboating along with the spectacle. The players, who once lumbered onto the rink as their names were shouted over the public-address system, now race to center ice and skid to a sudden stop. Says spectator | Yevgeni Balashov, 18, a private in the Russian army: "The music, contests and stuff make the whole night better...
...Senate Intelligence Committee and a frequent host to high-level visitors from the agency. What was unusual was the cast of characters they were there to protect. When DeConcini's heavy wooden office door opened, out stepped CIA Director R. James Woolsey -- accompanied by none other than Yevgeni Primakov, head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, successor organization to the KGB. Picking up their guards, the chiefs of the world's two largest intelligence agencies, once mortal enemies, bustled down the corridor to another meeting...
...Yeltsin now," said Alexei Svetlichny, a member of the Nizhni Novgorod city council, "but this will be the last time." Lyudmila Yakutin, a bank inspector in the city, was more firmly for Yeltsin: "The President must have the power, not those windbags" in parliament, she said. Yes, agreed economist Yevgeni Kozlov, Yeltsin may not be the ideal choice, but he is definitely "preferable to that chaotic Congress...
...YEVGENI SLAVUTIN Director "The whole world is about to perish, and you sound like you want to drink tea!" shouts director Yevgeni Slavutin, 44. He is taking two actresses through the crucial scene in an existentialist drama, where a chance encounter between a city woman and a peasant turns into a test of strength that will decide the fate of the universe. Viewers must believe, he says, that this morality play is "their own story." Slavutin's Student Theater at Moscow State University has dramatized the most tumultuous events of the Soviet demise in the language of vaudeville sketches...