Moscow State University

President Reagan told a group of high school seniors that they and their Soviet counterparts must "bring peoples of other cultures together in a common bond of humanity." Reagan, addressing the winners of the Presidential Scholars Medallion, advised the students to "stand forthrightly for the values of our whole way of life and what it is based upon." The President, recalling that he had spoken to students at Moscow State University during the recent U.S.

President Vladimir V. Putin's 50th birthday Monday gave Russians from all walks of life a chance to bow and scrape before this nation's unchallenged leader, with several TV specials, a crystal crocodile ("the only animal that never backs down") and a $50,000 jewel-encrusted crown fit for a medieval czar.

Re "Records Show Zhirinovsky Had a Jewish Name," April 4: It's just amazing--exactly in the same year, 1945, when Hitler died, a man of Jewish heritage was born in the former Soviet Union who is now seen as a new Hitler. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the Russian ultranationalist leader, is my age. Like Zhirinovsky, I came to Moscow from a Russian province after graduating from high school and like him I was admitted to Moscow State University. I see that we both were preoccupied by the same headache: His middle name has been Volf; mine, Aron.

Crib notes are old-fashioned in Moscow. Students at Moscow State University have developed a high-tech system for cheating that they talk openly about and one professor even says shows initiative. Cheating is considered widespread at many Russian universities, where in Soviet times ideology counted for more than scholarship and where modern young Russians sometimes hope to get by through bribes and trickery.

The first jointly published American-Soviet campus magazine, to be called Montage, is expected to make its debut early next year, a Stanford University organizer of the project said. "It's an idea whose time has come," said Susan McKean, 20, an editor at the Stanford Daily who next month will fly to Moscow for the quarterly magazine's first editorial meeting with organizers at Moscow State University.

--Art lovers will get their first look at the flip side of a well-known Michelangelo drawing of the suicide of Cleopatra when it goes on display Sunday at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, Director J. Carter Brown said. The newly discovered drawing, which was found in August, had not been noticed before because it was on the reverse side of a better known work that had been pasted onto a backing.

Four years after he was imprisoned by the KGB and threatened with the death penalty for espionage, Nicholas Daniloff said today that he will be going back to the Soviet Union, this time as a university lecturer. After 13 days of imprisonment and interrogation, Daniloff was released by the Soviet authorities in August, 1986, and permitted to leave with his family.

Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who took over the Soviet Union's leadership today after the death of Konstantin U. Chernenko, epitomizes a new generation of Soviet leaders--unmarked by party service under Stalin's iron rule, well-educated and reared in the postwar years that saw major advances in Soviet living standards. The 54-year-old Gorbachev, who is balding and wears glasses, is considered highly intelligent and during several trips abroad charmed his hosts with a polished manner.

Bringing profit to the land of perestroika-- where President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's reform policies have barely begun to penetrate the Soviet Union's cumbersome bureaucracy--will be no easy task. But it is one that Dennis Aigner, dean of the UCI Graduate School of Management, is looking forward to. Aigner, in what would be the first program of its kind, is proposing to establish a joint two-year graduate program for students from UC Irvine and Moscow State University.

Yuri Orlov, the Soviet dissident who will be allowed to leave for the United States following the release here of an alleged spy, was a founder of the committee set up in 1976 to monitor Soviet compliance with the Helsinki accords. Orlov, 62, was convicted in 1978 of anti-Soviet agitation and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment to be followed by five years of exile in Siberia.

Re "Records Show Zhirinovsky Had a Jewish Name," April 4: It's just amazing--exactly in the same year, 1945, when Hitler died, a man of Jewish heritage was born in the former Soviet Union who is now seen as a new Hitler. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the Russian ultranationalist leader, is my age. Like Zhirinovsky, I came to Moscow from a Russian province after graduating from high school and like him I was admitted to Moscow State University. I see that we both were preoccupied by the same headache: His middle name has been Volf; mine, Aron.

Four years after he was imprisoned by the KGB and threatened with the death penalty for espionage, Nicholas Daniloff said today that he will be going back to the Soviet Union, this time as a university lecturer. After 13 days of imprisonment and interrogation, Daniloff was released by the Soviet authorities in August, 1986, and permitted to leave with his family.

Bringing profit to the land of perestroika-- where President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's reform policies have barely begun to penetrate the Soviet Union's cumbersome bureaucracy--will be no easy task. But it is one that Dennis Aigner, dean of the UCI Graduate School of Management, is looking forward to. Aigner, in what would be the first program of its kind, is proposing to establish a joint two-year graduate program for students from UC Irvine and Moscow State University.

The first jointly published American-Soviet campus magazine, to be called Montage, is expected to make its debut early next year, a Stanford University organizer of the project said. "It's an idea whose time has come," said Susan McKean, 20, an editor at the Stanford Daily who next month will fly to Moscow for the quarterly magazine's first editorial meeting with organizers at Moscow State University.

--Art lovers will get their first look at the flip side of a well-known Michelangelo drawing of the suicide of Cleopatra when it goes on display Sunday at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, Director J. Carter Brown said. The newly discovered drawing, which was found in August, had not been noticed before because it was on the reverse side of a better known work that had been pasted onto a backing.

President Reagan told a group of high school seniors that they and their Soviet counterparts must "bring peoples of other cultures together in a common bond of humanity." Reagan, addressing the winners of the Presidential Scholars Medallion, advised the students to "stand forthrightly for the values of our whole way of life and what it is based upon." The President, recalling that he had spoken to students at Moscow State University during the recent U.S.

Members of a Soviet debating team on a tour of American universities say they have encountered no hostility, only hospitality and friendship, in their host country. But some of the questions have been surprising. "One student asked me if I was afraid to visit the United States," said a wide-eyed Yelena Kravchenko, 25, who along with two Soviet teammates visited UCLA on Tuesday to debate a team of American students.

President Vladimir V. Putin's 50th birthday Monday gave Russians from all walks of life a chance to bow and scrape before this nation's unchallenged leader, with several TV specials, a crystal crocodile ("the only animal that never backs down") and a $50,000 jewel-encrusted crown fit for a medieval czar.

All observers have pronounced the Moscow summit a success; the differences are in debating the degree of forward movement. Soviet-American political contacts have reached unprecedented intensity. The Moscow summit was the fourth in less than three years. In the same period, U.S. Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze met no less than 25 times.

Yuri Orlov, the Soviet dissident who will be allowed to leave for the United States following the release here of an alleged spy, was a founder of the committee set up in 1976 to monitor Soviet compliance with the Helsinki accords. Orlov, 62, was convicted in 1978 of anti-Soviet agitation and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment to be followed by five years of exile in Siberia.