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...vote reflects the exasperation of ordinary Russians, says TIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich. "People find no security from legitimate authority, so they seek it from mafia dons -- after all, mafia dons pay their debts and their salaries; public officials don't. The people see this hoodlum as a Robin Hood...
...Cold War?s frenzied race to record ?firsts? in space may have been replaced by genteel cooperation, but Moscow is set to edge out the U.S. in becoming the first nation to send a national politician into space. Former Kremlin national security adviser Yuri Baturin will be blasted up to Mir on August 12 to take part in a research mission. That?s two months ahead of Senator John Glenn?s planned sojourn on the shuttle Discovery. As space travel for the political executive goes, Discovery easily has the edge over Mir for comfort and safety, but the Russian station...
...Yuri Luzhkov, Mayor of Moscow, and Graham T. Allison Jr. '62, director of the Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, signed the agreement...
...surface had barely been scratched, however, when such hopes were severely dashed. Yuri Gusak put Wisconsin on the scoreboard first after only one minute of play. It took another 14 minutes for the next tally, but after they came in quick succession for Badgers...
...official: Yuri Baturin, Boris Yeltsin's bespectacled defense adviser, will take a spin for a week or so on Mir next year. The long-rumored trip is planned for August, during a crew changeover. Baturin, a former staff member at Energiya, the Russian space corporation that made Mir, has been secretly taking lessons in zero-G flight at Star City, the cosmonaut-training center outside Moscow. The competition to join him aloft promises to be stiff. Slovak, French and Indonesian astronauts, as well as a CNN correspondent, have already put in bids. Why would Baturin risk his life in space...