Word: ago
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crest of this new wave is Brigada S. "It's almost an accident we became so popular," says Sukachev, 29, who worked in a factory before he could make it with his music. Only two years ago, Sukachev and fellow band members were routinely hauled into local police stations and asked to explain their hairstyles and unusual dress. When the band's photograph appeared in a French magazine in 1986, Sukachev was taken to KGB headquarters for questioning. These days, all that has changed. On a recent trip back to his high school, Sukachev was surprised to hear himself described...
...ones are able to satisfy men's needs," he maintains. The leader of the Muslim board for Transcaucasia, Allahshukur Pasha-zada, declares that until recently "freedom of conscience was on paper only." The pre-Gorbachev regimes, he says, "destroyed all the values of the people." Just a few years ago, no officials would have dared utter such words except in intimate conversations with friends...
After the U.S.S.R. put out the welcome mat two years ago to attract joint ventures with Western firms, hundreds of business executives rushed to Moscow. Many of them inked deals to produce such wares as shoes and pizza, computer software and fertilizer. But doing business in the Soviet Union has presented more challenges than capitalists imagined. The road to perestroika's pot of gold is filled with bureaucratic potholes...
...longer I listened, the more amazed I was that this conversation was even taking place. Could you have imagined it ten, five, even three years ago! Who would have met with them for a talk? Wouldn't it have been officials from the local...
...also learned to my amazement that Vladimir Razhev had been elected director of the chemical factory, after being fired from the same post several years ago because of conflicts with the local leadership. "The city party committee was against his candidacy," said First Secretary Vladimir Karpov. "We had another director in mind, but the workers elected Razhev...