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Bringing special insight to TIME's coverage was correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich, a native Muscovite and translator of more than 20 books. "The best way to satisfy your curiosity about your own country is to cover it for a foreign magazine," says Zarakhovich. "When you just live among things, you often take them for granted; but when you have to spell them out for outsiders, you've got to stop and think hard to make them clear to yourself first...
...preparation for Barcelona, German hammer thrower Heinz Weis, with his trainer and a biomechanist, have been poring over video data on Yuri Sedykh, the Soviet thrower who set a world record in 1986 that still stands. One element of Sedykh's success, they believe, was his ability to generate maximum power by keeping both feet on the ground as long as possible during the three or four preparatory spins. Scientists at the U.S. aquatic center, working with swimming coaches, have suggested changes to American backstroker Janie Wagstaff and freestyler Matt Biondi in their underwater pulling patterns. Biondi was urged...
Named by Soviet officials as "a destructive element," Vika had been banned from Ukrainian television for years, said Yuri Shevchuk, an instructor of Ukrainian at the summer school...
...Yuri Pronin sleeps on a rough plank door liberated from a neighboring apartment and balanced atop heavy rusting water pipes in the tiny Moscow abode that he has called home since last December. The room has no electricity and no running water. A dented tin bread box and several empty jars serve as his kitchen, while a cardboard box doubles as chair and closet. The decor is Dickensian: bare, paint-chipped walls, splintering floorboards and windows caked with dirt. Apartments in the old Soviet Union were none too luxurious, but this is a big step down...
Fights have already erupted between the young reformers and the old Yeltsin loyalists, like presidential chief of staff Yuri Petrov. At first the Old Guard was dismissive of the new crowd. When the decree appointing Golovkov to the rival post of government chief of staff was sent over to the Kremlin for the President to sign, it somehow got "lost" on the way. Now presidential staffers must be wondering what will happen to them if Gaidar and the government team should actually succeed. Petrov submitted his resignation, complaining about "unfounded accusations" that he and other members of the party...