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...custody of his ambassador. Other conditions also were nearly identical to those imposed on Daniloff: Zakharov must not travel more than 25 miles from U.N. headquarters in New York, and he must check in by phone with a federal marshal every day. Soviet Ambassador Yuri Dubinin promised in writing to produce Zakharov in court when required; the U.S. similarly guaranteed that Daniloff will show up in a Soviet court if ordered...
...Soviet relations. Four days earlier Reagan, relying as always on his powers of persuasion, had sent Gorbachev a personal letter assuring the Soviet leader that Daniloff was not a spy and asking for his release. Within a few days, negotiations were under way in both Washington and Moscow. Dubinin and other senior Soviet diplomats made at least four unannounced calls at the State Department last week to confer about Daniloff, while in Moscow U.S. Charge d'Affaires Richard Combs pursued contacts at the Soviet Foreign Ministry...
...letter was sent September 3 to Eduard Shevardnadze, the Soviet minister of foreign affairs, and September 4 to Georgi Arbatov, director of the Institute of USA and Canada, the USSR Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Yuri V. Dubinin, the Soviet ambassador to the United States...
Only two months ago, Dubinin was named Moscow's Ambassador to the United Nations. Though that job gave him his first assignment on American shores, Dubinin was no diplomatic novice. Before going to the U.N., he served as the Soviet Ambassador to Spain for seven years, where he skillfully carried out the Kremlin's decision to restore good relations with the Spanish monarchy and Spain's Socialist political leaders. Still, he is regarded by some Western diplomats as conservative and cautious, an unsophisticated apparatchik who has a reputation for stonewalling at every turn. Some observers regard him as a throwback...
...seems certain that in the short run, at least, Dubinin will play a far smaller role in managing relations with the U.S. than did Dobrynin. Indeed, that may be precisely why he was chosen. Many observers see it as a bid by Dobrynin to keep the reins of U.S.-Soviet relations in his own hands back in Moscow. "It suggests that Dobrynin intends to remain in control of the American account," said one U.S. official, "because there would not be another indispensable Russian in Washington." Agrees Sovietologist Dimitri Simes of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: "Dobrynin did not want...