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Some changes call for bolstering existing bureau strength, especially in Moscow, where journalist Yuri Zarakhovich, a Russian citizen, has just joined our reportorial team on a full-time basis. "Yuri brings us much closer to the news," says Moscow bureau chief John Kohan, "and consistently provides TIME with an invaluable insider's view of life here...
Faculty Recital--John Daverio, narrator; Augusto Paglialunga, guest tenor; and John Crotty, guest piano will perform Brahms, Magelone-Romanzen. Monday, Feb. 10,8 p.m. Yuri Mazurkevich, violin. Tuseday, Feb. 11, 8 p.m. Boston university Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Ave., Boston. Free...
...that Moscow no longer runs the former union, local governments are returning to traditional national place names that evoke far different memories. They are dumping the old communists: the city of Andropov, for Yuri Andropov, party boss from 1982 to '84, is Rybinsk again; Sverdlovsk, for Lenin's henchman Yakov Sverdlov, who approved the execution of Czar Nicholas II and his family there, has reassumed the proud title Yekaterinburg, for Peter the Great's wife, Catherine...
...peace and respect for human rights. Though the West was concerned that such violence could become the norm in other former Soviet republics, recent flare-ups have been limited to ethnically divided Moldavia and the Caucasian states of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. Most of the population, says Russian sociologist Yuri Levada, has proved -- for now, at least -- to be "more democratic, more restrained and more peaceful than many expected...
...other hand, Yuri Maltsev, a former economic advisor to Gorbachev and now a fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, estimates that at least 40 percent of the Soviet economy operates in the informal sector...