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Exiled Soviet stage director Yuri Lyubimov, 70--who last week spoke of his desire to return to his motherland--will go home in May to Moscow’s Taganka Theater to preside over the opening of a production he was working on before he was fired and dishonored four years ago. The Taganka’s deputy director, Alexander M. Yefimovich, confirmed that Lyubimov had accepted an invitation from the theater to come to Moscow and open “Boris Godunov,” his drama about the troubled 8-year reign of the Russian czar who died in 1605. Yefimovich emphasized, however, that the popular director would be coming for a working visit rather than returning for permanent residence.