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...Daniel Kadlec. With reporting by Yuri Zarakhovich
...never come over here!" Zhirinovsky recently told a reporter from the Armenian daily Novoye Vremya. Some 35% of the electorate supported nationalist parties in the last parliamentary elections, according to the Moscow Bureau on Human Rights. As leader of the neo-Nazi Freedom Party, based in St. Petersburg, Yuri Belyayev would love to be part of the political mainstream. A burly former police officer who positively beams with forced joviality, he supports President Vladimir Putin and believes the President shares some of his goals. "He is for rubbing out the [ethnic minorities] and for a strong Russia," Belyayev says...
...Many critics of Reagan's foreign policy have pointed out, however, that as the Soviet Union started to fray, there was a real chance it would end with a nuclear bang rather than a whimper. Had the U.S.S.R. not been lucky enough to draw Mikhail Gorbachev instead of, say, Yuri Andropov as its last leader, the odds are high the outcome would have been very bad. All any U.S. President could do with that nightmarish regime was restrain it from further expansion while praying that when it finally did collapse, it would somehow manage to do so peacefully--which, finally...
...Since Yuri Gagarin first blasted into the heavens in 1961, manned space flight has been a strictly government-run affair. That ended on June 21 when MIKE MELVILL flew to an altitude of 100.1 km on SpaceShipOne, a private rocket-powered plane funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. After gliding safely to earth, Melvill was more exultant than eloquent. He climbed atop the dart-shaped craft and whooped, "Yeeee-haaah...
...YURI SCHMIDT, defense lawyer for Mikhail Khodorkovsky, former CEO of Russian oil firm Yukos, ahead of Khodorkovsky's trial this week for alleged tax evasion and fraud