Quite how it was done is a bit of a mystery, even to Dr Kravchenko.

ECONOMIST: Superconductors

In response to this idea, Dr Kravchenko and his colleagues have proposed that a liquid-like phase of the electrons may explain their observations.

ECONOMIST: Superconductors

Speaking on Russian state television, the consul-general in Milan, Alexei Parmonov, named the dead as Denis Kravchenko, Irina Kravchenko, Vyacheslav Sleptsov, Yulia Yudina, Lyudmila Yudina and Rafilya Pshenichnaya, AP reports.

BBC: Italy: Russian tourists die in snowmobile accident

Interestingly, this interview was printed after the popular Soviet TV program "Vzglyad" was blocked from airing a feature on the Shevardnadze resignation on 28 December by Soviet Radio and Television Chairman Kravchenko.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

In one of the clearest indications of the passing of glasnost and the unfair, unfree quality of the balloting on the All-Union Treaty referendum, Leonid Kravchenko, chairman of the USSR State Committee for Broadcasting, declined on 15 March to give Russian President one hour of air time for an address to his fellow citizens.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy