8Mr. Gagarin returned to the Soviet Union as a national hero. His days of glory were cut short; he died at 34 in a military jet crash.

成功返回地面的加加林先生在苏联受到民族英雄般的礼遇。但好景不长，在一次驾驶军用飞机时失事坠毁，时年34岁。

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The article attributes the instability in ethnic numbers to the short of coherent national principle about dividing ethnic groups in the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation.

文章认为，苏联和俄罗斯联邦的民族数量不确定的原因，主要与其缺乏统一、连贯的划分民族的国家原则有关。

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Just how much so readers will learn from Martin Gilman's account of Russia's fitful, often stumbling economic reforms in the short decade between the collapse of the Soviet Union and the country's default on its domestic debt in 1998.

ECONOMIST: The Russian default