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Moscow’s Taganka Theater Company performed Alexander Pushkin’s tragedy “Boris Godunov” on Sunday--some six years after the play was banned from the stage under the theater’s former director, the controversial Yuri Lyubimov, who was subsequently fired and stripped of his Soviet citizenship. The Soviet new agency Tass reported Monday that Nikolai Gubenko, now Taganka’s director, “followed closely Lyubimov’s conception of the play. He used most of Lyubimov’s stage settings, as well as his interpretation of characters and relations among them.” Lyubimov said during a recent trip back to Moscow--his first since he was punished, in 1984--that he might return to work in the Soviet capital. He has been working in Europe and in the United States.