Word: dmitry
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...newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda the next day achieved a bizarre fusion of conservative-radical coup rumors; it said ; military forces had been put on alert in early September to thwart a planned takeover by radicals who had organized armed assault groups. "The facts in this article were invented," Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov protested in Parliament. "No one is is preparing paratroopers for actions against the people." But even that did not kill the conspiracy talk. Moscow Mayor Gavril Popov and members of the Russian Federation government charged that Communist Party provocateurs and military hard-liners were trying to organize phony reformist...
...which way you put Harvard on the shirt it sells--period," says Dmitri S. Tragos, manager of J. August...
...Moscow celebrated the 1945 victory over Nazi Germany last week, Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov insisted that the Baltic states had been "liberated" by the Red Army, not occupied, as the secessionists contend. "We were met with flowers," said Yazov. But Soviet officials were the targets, of brickbats rather than bouquets in the three Baltic capitals, which jointly announced an agreement for the direct trading of their agricultural products among themselves, cutting out Soviet ministries...
...first thing Mstislav Rostropovich did in Moscow last week was go to Novodevichy Cemetery. "To make my tears for my dearest friends," as he told one interviewer. The great cellist laid flowers on the grave of Dmitri Shostakovich, who once taught him composition (Rostropovich quit the Moscow Conservatory when Shostakovich was dismissed for having offended Stalin's sensibilities). He laid more at the graves of Sergei Prokofiev, David Oistrakh and Emil Gilels. The next day, at another cemetery, he paid his respects to his mother Sofia and to Andrei Sakharov, whom he called "the greatest man of the 20th century...
...Gunmen on motorcycles, some of them in police or military uniforms, dashed through the city at night taking potshots at soldiers on patrol. Soviet Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov claimed that 40,000 armed "extremists" still roamed the republic...