Word: dmitry
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Maybe the passing of time eased the emotional sting, but the disclosure still had a shocking impact. According to records released by a retired Russian army general, Dmitri Volkogonov, 119 Americans were held in camps as Soviet prisoners of war following World War II. Of this group, 18 died in custody (some by execution), several were interned for lengthy sentences, and others were eventually released, settling in Soviet territory. According to the general, none of the remaining Americans are currently being held against their will...
...year term for perjury. Yet he has staunchly maintained his innocence, even in the face of microfilm evidence produced by former TIME editor Whittaker Chambers. Now comes word from an unlikely but authoritative source that Hiss, 87, may not have spied. After researching "a great amount of materials," General Dmitri Volkogonov, chairman of the Russian government's secret military-intelligence archives, announced he could find no evidence that Hiss had spied for Russia. That, skeptics note, doesn't mean Hiss is innocent -- just that Volkogonov didn't find anything, which is a bit different from finding there was nothing...
...Veronika disappears as soon as soon as she hits the shelves," said Dmitri Arkhangelsky, the chief engineer of Russia's hottest new doll...
Some of the conspirators, notably Interior Minister Boris Pugo (the apparent suicide), Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov and KGB chief Vladimir Kryuchkov, are said to have begun plotting in December 1990. If so, eight months later they still had not organized the most obvious, and essential, opening moves: arresting, or preferably killing, potential opponents (some supporters of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev operated unmolested from a Kremlin office almost next door to Yanayev's); assuring themselves of the loyalty of military units and then moving them into position to crush resistance speedily (army and KGB units flatly refused to storm the White...
Nothing causes more alarm for Russians than the prospect of a bleak winter without food. Famine has recurred with frightening regularity during seven decades of communist rule. "Hunger did not start with perestroika," explains Dmitri Pushkar, a deputy on the Yaroslavl regional council, who monitors food supplies in the countryside. "It began with the coming of Soviet power." Vadim, a local taxi driver, puts it more bluntly: "I remember the postwar famine of 1947, when we had nothing to eat but nettles and goose feet. So what else...