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...Georgy Arbatov, director of Moscow's U.S.A. Institute and the leading Soviet Americanologist, says that for the U.S. détente was "accommodation to the new realities of the international situation, to the changing foreign and domestic conditions in which U.S. policy is being conceived and shaped . . . Before any shift to détente became possible, it was absolutely necessary that the U.S. begin to accept the idea that the earlier course of the cold war had ceased to correspond to its interests...
...Arbatov's statement is accurate enough, but it applies with equal weight to the Soviet Union, a point he makes, perhaps unconsciously, when he suggests that the fears of one side are the mirror image of those of the other side. "Senator Jackson claims that development of Soviet-American trade will indirectly help Soviet military programs," he says. "The mirror image of that is for us to ask: Should we help your domestic economic problems by trading with the U.S. and thus creating jobs there and supplying needed raw materials? By trade we do not mean mutual aid, but mutual...
...authorities in Moscow seemed as eager as we were to exchange views. Foreign Trade Minister Nikolai Patolichev invited us to meet with him in his office. At a TIME luncheon, we had as our guests Deputy Foreign Trade Minister Nikolai Osipov, Dr. Georgy Arbatov of the Institute of U.S. Studies (Russia's leading America watcher), and Boris Karpov, the newly appointed president of the agency that controls all Russian advertising. In the House of Journalists, the Soviet press club, we were surprised to find that editors and reporters were quite willing to discuss such sensitive topics as advertising - which...
...well as among its subscribers. Former President Anastas Mikoyan's son Sergei, Premier Aleksei Kosygin's daughter Lyudmila Gvishiani, Brezhnev's daughter Galina, and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's son Anatoly have all written on American affairs for the institute. A frequent contributor himself, Arbatov may write an article on the 1972 election, based on his upcoming trip...
...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...