EX-RUSSIAN DISSIDENT RETURNS TO MOSCOW AS ISRAELI OFFICIAL.Byline: The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times Saying he had come to close the circle, Natan Sharansky Natan Sharansky (Hebrew: נתן שרנסקי, Russian: returned as an Israeli Cabinet minister Monday to the country from which he was expelled 11 years ago as a convicted traitor TRAITOR, crimes. One guilty of treason. 2. The punishment of a traitor is death. . Landing in Moscow in the freezing darkness of early morning, Sharansky, 49, a former dissident, denied feelings of nostalgia or triumph. ``When I was in prison, I often dreamed of landing in Israel in an El Al plane - always an El Al plane - and being met there by my wife, Avital, and her brother, Misha,'' he said. ``But I have never dreamed of landing in Moscow in an El Al plane. Maybe I've been asked too many times what I'd feel about this. I've already celebrated victory. Those I defeated are no longer in power. The struggle now is for building strong relations with Russia.'' The importance of the visit for him, Sharansky said, was the symbolism and the message of returning to his father's grave and returning as an Israeli leader. Accompanied by his 89-year-old mother, Ida Milgrom, and his wife, Sharansky drove to the cemetery in the suburb of Malakhovka. His father, Boris, died in 1980, while Sharansky was in prison, and he had never been to the grave. But the tombstone Tombstone, city (1990 pop. 1,220), Cochise co., SE Ariz.; inc. 1881. With its pleasant climate and legendary past, Tombstone is a well-known tourist attraction. The city became a national historic landmark in 1962. had the inscription inscription, writing on durable material. The art is called epigraphy. Modern inscriptions are made for permanent, monumental record, as on gravestones, cornerstones, and building fronts; they are often decorative and imitative of ancient (usually Roman) methods. he had dictated to his mother: ``His soul will sleep in peace. His seed will inherit To receive property according to the state laws of intestate succession from a decedent who has failed to execute a valid will, or, where the term is applied in a more general sense, to receive the property of a decedent by will. inherit v. the land of Israel.'' ``That feeling of closing the circle, it was a very dramatic feeling at the cemetery,'' Sharansky said. Following that, he said, another circle was closed, this one almost literally. That was when Sharansky, as the Israeli minister of industry and trade, signed an economic cooperation agreement with Mayor Yuri Luzhkov to boost trade between Israel and the city of Moscow. The ceremony took place in a sparkling hall, Sharansky said, next door to the building where he was arrested 20 years earlier - the last time he saw anything of Moscow other than Lefortovo Prison which in its turn named after Franz Lefort, a close associate of Tsar Peter I the Great. . |
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