23 JUNE 1990, page 10

A Mammoth Wakes

The Russian Federation could be a world power independently of the Soviet Union. Stephen Hendelman reports on a surprising nationalist revival Upper Uymon THE Siberian village......

Deutschmark Ober Alles

Anne McElvoy finds that East Berlin's queues have shifted from the shops to the banks Berlin THE denim-clad bodies press closer together in the early morning light and 300 necks......