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...high pay of the Arctic frontier: salaries run around 500 rubles ($750) a month, nearly triple the national average. "Like many of my friends, I came out here in 1953 at the bidding of the Komsomol ((Young Communist League)) and also at the urging of my heart," said Alexander Bogdanov, 56, first secretary of the regional Communist Party. "We thought we would work here for three or four years. But as it turned out, we stayed...
...Bogdanov rules over the coldest, richest, most remote region of the Soviet Union. It is an area nearly twice the size of Texas, tucked into the farthest corner of the Soviet Far East, between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Straits. Temperatures in some parts of the region fall to -95 degrees F in winter, and even in late March the central Kolyma basin recorded -35 degrees F on a crystal-clear...
...five Soviet journalists ordered to leave Britain was Mikhail Bogdanov, an affable correspondent for the newspaper Socialist Industry, who often entertained British colleagues at the House of Commons press bar and at dinner parties. One British newsman remembered a gathering at which Soviet guests, including Bogdanov, began joking about spies and the KGB. "Of course, I'm a KGB officer," said Bogdanov, smiling. "But Nadia (his wife) is more senior. She is a colonel. I am only a major...
...decided to wait out the U.S. elections. The President has so angered the Soviets that even his occasional efforts at accommodation-toning down his anti-Soviet rhetoric, accepting a Soviet proposal for a ban on the use of force in Europe-have met with a cold rebuff. Says Radomir Bogdanov of Moscow's Institute for U.S.A. and Canada Studies: "Our relations are at the lowest point since World War II, and what is very disturbing is that a kind of hopelessness is setting in, a feeling here that it is impossible to improve relations with these people...
...senior official: "What do the Soviets see? They see us opening production lines for MX missiles, cruise missiles, B-l bombers, and soon Stealth bombers and Trident II missiles. We could go on building them in definitely." Soviet officials object to that kind of argument as intimidation. Said Radomir Bogdanov, an arms-control expert at Moscow's USA Institute: "It's the usual American tactic of threatening your bargaining partner...