GAGARIN FALLS IN TASHKENT.

Publication: Monitor Volume: 1 Issue: 65

Age: 29 years

Uzbek officials removed a statueof Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin from a square in front of PresidentIslam Karimov’s residence, Interfax reported August 1. The onlySoviet-era statue still standing in the Uzbek capital is a monumentto Bolshevik commissars that stands in front of the city’s mainrail station.

Moscow Paper: Karimov Outsmarted Chernomyrdin.