Word: azerbaijan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anti-Communist group in Western Europe and then seized upon by the KGB as a pretext for cracking down on dissident elements. According to one account, the KGB has used the appeal to justify sweeping investigations not only in Tallin, but also in other places, including Leningrad, the Azerbaijan city of Baku and the Siberian industrial center of Khabarovsk...
...Only the third walkout in the Security Council's history. The others: Russia's angry departure during the Azerbaijan debate in 1946 and again in 1950 as a protest against Nationalist China serving as Council president...
...Court Minister of Iran since 1957, one of the Shah's oldest and ablest advisers, a reform-minded, pro-West politician who won worldwide notice in March 1946 when he stood before the U.N. Security Council and called attention to the illegal Russian occupation of Iran's Azerbaijan Province, raised such a storm that the Reds withdrew in the face of world opinion; of pneumonia; in Teheran...
...colonial administration will also join the parade, even though they mostly inhabit hundreds of tiny islands and enclaves that have few of the ethnic and economic prerequisites for nationhood. If the 100 million non-Russian residents of the Soviet Union could have their way, such new nations as Azerbaijan and Yakutia would also be independently seated...
Even before he reached his teens, Lev Davidovic Landau was a mathematical prodigy. Before he graduated from the University of Leningrad, the youngster from Azerbaijan was publishing respected scientific papers. As he developed into one of the Soviet Union's leading scientists, he became an expert in many of the far-ranging fields of physics. If he resented the fact that he was rarely trusted to go abroad unchaperoned to collect the numerous awards he won from admiring Western colleagues, he gave no indication. He went right on working, and last week he got his biggest prize...