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<text id=89TT0935>
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Apr. 10, 1989: Everything Is Forgiven
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Apr. 10, 1989 The New USSR
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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PEOPLE, Page 106
EVERYTHING IS FORGIVEN
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<p>By Howard G. Chua-Eoan/Reported by Sally B. Donnelly/Moscow
</p>
<p> Her first name means "a golden crescent moon." But even
more poetic are Altynai Asylmuratova's beauty and dancing.
Asylmuratova (pronounced Ah-sil-mu-rah-to-va) is the latest
treasure of the 250-year-old Kirov Ballet. Over the past 30
years, the Kirov has lost some of its greatest dancers to the
West: Natalia Makarova, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Rudolf Nureyev. So
bitter were these losses that the company blotted the artists
from its memory. Portraits were removed from walls. Legends
lived only as whispers. That has all changed with glasnost. "The
wonderful thing is that their pictures are back on the wall,"
says Asylmuratova, 28. Moreover, Nureyev visited his mother in
Ufa, near the Urals, two years ago; Makarova danced in Leningrad
in February; and Baryshnikov is negotiating a return.
Asylmuratova did her part last month, performing with the
American Ballet Theater in Los Angeles. She claims she had no
time to enjoy her stay. But rumor has it she went shopping.
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