Word: aleksei
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minor role in the 1762 coup by which Catherine and Guards Officer Grigori Orlov overthrew Catherine's weakling husband Peter III. Orlov introduced young Potemkin into court circles, where he at once amused Catherine by imitating her German accent. Orlov soon became jealous, so he and his brother Aleksei picked a quarrel with Potemkin and severely beat him. This is one explanation, though unconfirmed, of how Potemkin lost an eye (hence his nickname, "Cyclops...
...leaders of the Soviet Union -Leonid Brezhnev, Nikolai Podgorny, Aleksei Kosygin-were downcast as they stood by the flower-covered bier in Moscow's imposing Trade Union House. While a string orchestra played funeral dirges, thousands of workers, soldiers and bureaucrats filed past the medal-bedecked dais for a last look at the jut-jawed countenance of Marshal Andrei Antonovich Grechko, Soviet Defense Minister and architect of the Kremlin's modern-day military might...
...contrast, Premier Aleksei Kosygin, 71, seems to have slipped, although he too kept his Politburo seat. His address on the economy ran only two hours, and, as he spoke, Brezhnev's chair on the dais was conspicuously-and un-precedentedly-vacant. That could indicate that Brezhnev intended to rebuff Kosygin, or that he was bored with the proceedings, since he and the rest of the Politburo had already read and approved the Premier's remarks. What may be more revealing than Brezhnev's absence, suggested U.S. analysts, is that Kosygin limited himself to economic matters. Noted...
...Congress is scheduled to adjourn late this week, after Premier Aleksei Kosygin discusses Russia's new economic program, which is also guaranteed to be praised by an assortment of party officials, ordinary comrades and visiting dignitaries. The strongest notes of dissent last week came from Italy's Berlinguer and from Gaston Plissonnier, leader of the French Communist delegation. Berlinguer proclaimed that his party would be willing to cooperate with widely divergent ideologies within "a pluralistic and democratic system." Next day, Plissonnier declared that France's Communists would seek "a socialism of the French sort" including "the guarantee...
...impression was the announcement that Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, 69, would deliver the Soviet equivalent of a "state of the union" address. This traditionally lasts from five to six hours-scarcely an undertaking for a man long rumored to be suffering from a fatal physical or political illness. Premier Aleksei Kosygin, 71, whose survival in power is often linked to Brezhnev's, is scheduled to deliver the crucial report on the economy...