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...between the Kremlin and Moscow's city hall. Sergei Gerasimov, the prosecutor appointed to take Ponomaryov's place, quickly resigned. In Parliament Yeltsin's opponents pushed through a lopsided vote of no confidence in Interior Minister Victor Yerin, who is in effect the national chief of police. Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, once a strong Yeltsin ally, fumed that only "criminals and bandits" would be in favor of firing senior police officials. Then he threatened to resign...
...Reported by John Kohan and Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow
...would be the greatest diver in history if he got the right coach." Lee became that coach, and at the '76 Olympics in Montreal the 16-year-old Louganis won a silver medal. It was also in Montreal that Louganis developed a big crush-on a Soviet diver called Yuri in the book. "I fell for him like a boulder off the 10-m platform," writes Louganis. It led to nothing more than a night of drunken cuddling. "It was the most natural thing in the world, and I felt no guilt...
...brow and thick, snubbed nose, looks literally, physically hard, almost as if the skin and hair covered marble. Lebed's loud, deep voice also projects extraordinary strength--he can speak in thunderclaps. But when he was interviewed recently in Tiraspol by TIME Moscow bureau chief John Kohan and reporter Yuri Zarakhovich, Lebed's manner was calm even as he denounced the ``windbags'' running the Russian army, proclaimed that the crackdown on Chechnya must have been ordered up by ``dilettantes or madmen'' and mused about running the country himself someday. ``I don't really want to,'' he said...
Russian critics of Boris Yeltsin's administration charge that Moscow has severely underreported Chechen civilian casualties. Tuesday night, lawmaker Yuri Rybakov said a group led by Russia's human rights commissioner has compiled a list of 25,000 civilians killed so far in Grozny, the Chechen capital. (The Kremlin has already rejected similar estimates, including one of 20,000 dead by the Russian parliament's defense committee.) Russian forces, meanwhile, began bombarding villages in Ingushetia, one of several border republics that Russia accuses of harboring Chechen rebels...