World & Nation
The director of the government commission investigating the April 26 Chernobyl nuclear accident has been replaced, a dispatch of the official news agency Tass indicated Friday.
July 5, 1986
Stunned FBI agents and U.S. diplomatic security officers scrambled Thursday to determine how--and when--a Russian spy secretly planted a sophisticated eavesdropping device inside a State Department conference room used by high-level officials and whether national security was put in jeopardy as a result.
Dec. 10, 1999
Hockey
Sergei Makarov, who played on the famed KLM line in the Soviet Union, was released by the Dallas Stars after a four-game comeback.
Jan. 1, 1997
Sports
TODAY’S STAGE 1 Today’s stage begins in London and takes the riders 203 kilometers, or 126.1 miles, to the city of Canterbury.
July 8, 2007
Media: Moguls purchase news outlets to shape opinion about candidates most likely to benefit their bottom lines.
June 3, 1998
MOSCOW -- In what some see as a new move to limit free speech and secure more control over information, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday dissolved a state news agency dating to the Soviet era and replaced it with a new body aimed at promoting the Kremlin’s positions abroad.
Dec. 9, 2013
The Soviet government said Wednesday that the dissident writer Anatoly Marchenko, 48, died of a brain hemorrhage in a prison hospital after a long illness.
Dec. 11, 1986
Entertainment & Arts
Dancing to tape at the Probst Center in Thousand Oaks, the 8-year-old Moscow Festival Ballet displayed uniformly excellent training and coaching in a four-part program that kept emphasizing exactly what the company doesn’t have: world-class star power.
Feb. 8, 1997
Nostalgia for communism, or Russian culture under communism, just might be the last perversion of the 20th century--and it’s writ large over the Russian National Ballet “Swan Lake.”
Feb. 13, 1999