Word: gazeta
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Many Poles, weary of Tyminski's crude emotionalism and obsessive anti- Semitic rantings, heaved a sigh of relief. His special enemy is ex- Solidarity activist Adam Michnik, editor in chief of Warsaw's Gazeta Wyborcza, whose paper noted two months ago how quickly Tyminski had supported the Soviet coup. The next day Tyminski sent a chicken carcass to the paper, characterizing it as carrion for carrion. Tyminski's political role is marginal in any case. The Poles' real concern is their economy, which has failed to rebound since the fall of communism...
...leaders' lack of belief in the future of a party they, probably better than anybody else, knew was an empty fraud. In the months preceding the coup and collapse there were signs that top party bosses, sensing the end was near, had begun looting the treasury. The newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta reported a series of shady real estate deals involving top party officials and attempts to convert soft ruble accounts into hard currency. Just before the party lost control of the Moscow City Council, for example, the Communist chairman, Valeri Saikin, transferred 33 city buildings to the party free of charge...
...Bolshoi Ballet) as symbolic. Spots have darkened its walls; danger signs hang here and there; the sculpture of a chariot-borne Apollo on its roof stands within a protective cage awaiting repairs. THE BOLSHOI BUILDING ((IS)) ON THE VERGE OF COLLAPSE, warned a headline in the Moscow newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta...
Following Literatunaya Gazeta's lead, other papers began to follow suit by printing articles with stinging attacks on the Soviet structure, Vessenski says, eventually making such previously unprecedented criticism commonplace...
After that initial journalistic venture, Vessenski began working at Literatunaya Gazeta, covering disarmament as well as world churches and their contribution to the peace movement. In 1983, he returned for five years to South America, where he was a correspondent in Argentina...