Word: dacha
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...unfashionable side of the Soviet hierarchy. He was an executive in the Soviet chemical industry, not a party bureaucrat. Nevertheless, he is anything but a dry party hack. He has a fascination with Catherine the Great, for instance, and he spends his spare time raising bees at his dacha outside Moscow...
...checking, sealing and moving to a new headquarters 300,000 files kept by the KGB's foreign intelligence service. Disillusioned by the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, he set about copying in longhand the highly sensitive files in his care and stuffing his notes in metal cases beneath his dacha. By his retirement in 1984 he had a trove of the KGB's deepest secrets, including agent names and accounts of assassinations and covert actions. In 1992 he arranged for British intelligence to whisk him, his family and his trunks of paper to safety. Spy hunters and prosecutors got first...
Russia's embattled President rose early on Monday to greet Stepashin and Putin at Gorki-9, the presidential dacha outside Moscow. The hour--7:30 a.m.--meant Yeltsin was not seeking a casual conclave. Stepashin and Putin knew what was coming; the shake-up had already surfaced in the Moscow press. Anatoli Chubais--an early Yeltsin ally--had even met with Kremlin aides on Sunday to argue that firing another Prime Minister now, with parliamentary elections set for December and a presidential vote next July, was a dangerous move that could discredit the Kremlin, the government and Russia in general...
...ever thought Gorbachev particularly honest, fair or noble. But after he was gone, the country was overwhelmed by a flood of dishonesty, corruption, lies and outright banditry that no one expected. Those who reproached him for petty indulgences at government expense--for instance, every room of his government dacha had a television set--themselves stole billions; those who were indignant that he sought advice from his wife managed to set up their closest relatives with high-level, well-paid state jobs. All the pygmies of previous years, afraid to squeak in the pre-Gorbachev era, now, with no risk...
...when Boris Yeltsin retires, will he settle down in a comfy little dacha on the Black Sea? Au contraire, Pierre. Boris, it seems, is preparing for a luxurious retirement on the French Riviera. According to European sources, Yeltsin is the future landlord of the 100-year-old Chateau de la Garoupe, a rambling villa set on 24 acres of fragrant gardens, olive trees and terraces that run down to the Mediterranean. Although the place needs a bit of work, it still cost nearly $8 million. Rumored buyers include Russian businessmen eager to please Boris...