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...director of the four-year-old U.S.A. Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Arbatov heads a think tank of approximately 80 so-called Amerikanisti-the Kremlin's answer to Kremlinologists. They represent a new breed of Soviet information specialist who analyze facts rather than churn out propaganda. "We are neither professional peacemakers nor professional propagandists," Arbatov told TIME Correspondent John Shaw in Moscow last week, as he puffed on a Winston. "We are Marxists-Leninists, but within that frame of reference there is plenty of scope for understanding...
...U.S.A. Institute is the only Soviet research center devoted to the study of a single country. The Amerikanisti enjoy increasing influence and support among the leadership due to the current Soviet-American rapprochement. Ironically, Russia's America watchers are prospering just when America's Russia watchers fear that their profession is in serious trouble. "One difference between us," says Arbatov, "is that in times of bad relations there is less interest here in the U.S., but as relations improve there is more interest." His budget for the institute has been increased in each of the past two years...
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