1.  Aron Pressman, a former head of the Russian department at New York University, died Thursday at a nursing home in Sunderland, Mass.

2.  In the United States, he served as head of the Russian department at Georgetown University.

3.  A foreign ministry official said Monday this was not due to any political motives but rather to bad coordination between various Russian political departments.

4.  The official said this was not due to any political motives but rather to bad coordination between various Russian political departments.