This explosive ensemble of 80 dancers, singers and musicians from Russia's southwestern republic shows a talent for entertainment that goes far beyond squat-kicking, fur-capped Cossacks. Ablaze in colorful native costumes, the men and women on this 50-city tour should do more for detente than any diplomat. This week the Russians are coming to Washington, D.C. and New York before whirling on to Wilmington, Del. and Scranton, Pa.

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