Word: fyodor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Supreme Soviet seems powerfully aware of the danger. Although the enabling laws granting autonomy to the republics will not be submitted to the Parliament until October, other aggrieved national groups are already eyeing the same reward. Delegates from the Ukraine have expressed interest in the proposal, and Moscow Deputy Fyodor Burlatsky suggested that the "historic" experiment on the Baltic might provide a model for all 15 Soviet republics...
...scientists, administrators and political leaders from five continents to a TIME conference charged with producing a tough but realistic action program. The conference was organized by Washington correspondent Dick Thompson. His proudest coup was to persuade a team of Soviet experts to participate. The group was led by Fyodor Morgun, Mikhail Gorbachev's hand-picked chairman of the state committee for environmental protection...
...sign of the Soviets' willingness to join international environmental efforts was their presence at the TIME conference in Boulder. Fyodor Morgun, the recently appointed head of Goskompriroda, made his first trip to the U.S. (and only his second journey outside the Soviet Union) to attend the meeting. And he was startlingly frank about the situation in his country. "We have started too late," Morgun told the group. "Our air is not up to the proper mark, our soil is polluted, and our forests are affected. Drastic measures were taken in the West 15 to 20 years ago to improve...
...environment. Rafik Nishanov, the Uzbekistan party chief, complained bitterly about a disastrous drop in the water level of the inland Aral Sea, which has been depleted over the years by efforts to irrigate the arid republics of Central Asia. The chief of a new environmental protection committee, Fyodor Morgun, blamed the "ill-considered drive to build gigantic plants" for a Pandora's box of ecological problems, including air and water pollution...
Just how Gorbachev rose out of provincial obscurity is still somewhat mysterious. As late as 1978, few outside Stavropol Krai had ever heard of him. The best answer seems to be that he attracted a number of powerful patrons. The first was Fyodor Kulakov, who as party boss in Stavropol first spotted Gorbachev as having great promise. After Kulakov became Agriculture Secretary for the entire Soviet Union, Gorbachev eventually succeeded him in Stavropol -- and Kulakov apparently made sure his protege became known in Moscow. In 1977 the "Ipatovsky method," a new technique of harvesting grain quickly by using flying squads...