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- By PAUL GRAY/Reported by David Ellis
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- DOES HE DARE TO DRINK A TOAST? Novelist Valentin Rasputin
- strikes many as an odd choice to serve on Mikhail Gorbachev's
- new advisory presidential council. Rasputin's writings and
- speeches are often chauvinistically Russian and, according to
- some, anti-Semitic. But officials in Moscow think they have
- discovered the reason for Rasputin's elevated post. Raisa
- Gorbachev is a big fan of his books. A question now making the
- Kremlin rounds: Does every Czarina need her Rasputin?
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