Word: gennady
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When a briefing by Soviet cultural luminaries was dominated by questions about the student demonstrations, the director of the Soviet press center at the Beijing International Hotel finally blew up. "You are putting us in a difficult position," he snapped. "Ask questions about our country." Foreign Ministry press spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov resorted to irony when queried about the wreath-laying ceremony. "We are guests and never argue with our hosts," he replied. "We recognize that it would be physically impossible to carry out this part of the program. But it is a matter for the Chinese...
...leader at least twice a day, discussing topics that might range from the country's ethnic unrest to land leasing and family farms. Foreign Ministry staffers, with their boss's encouragement, have lobbied other branches of the bureaucracy to improve the country's human rights image. Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov, 59, has smoothly refined the notion of glasnost in government at daily press briefings, packaging information with slivers of barbed wit. When clashes between troops and nationalist demonstrators in Shevardnadze's native republic of Georgia claimed the lives of 20 people last month, the Foreign Minister canceled a visit...
...Gennadi Yagodin, appointed last year as chairman of the State Committee for Public Education, has been blunt about the failings of teachers. Many cannot be replaced or re-educated, he says; the system is simply stuck with them. Money is another problem. Yagodin has promised to double the budget for new school construction and teaching materials. But the biggest need, he feels, is for free thinking. Says Yagodin: "The school badly wants more democracy." In the end, only a generation of new teachers, trained in the era of glasnost, may be able to carry out the sweeping school reform...
Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov denounced the expulsion as a "provocation" and "not in line with the spirit of peaceful cooperation." Five days later the Soviets responded in kind, ordering U.S. embassy employee Lieut. Colonel Daniel Van Gundy to leave Moscow. The charge: attempting to enter a closed area and take pictures of military facilities. As denials flew on both sides and the threat of further expulsions loomed, a Western envoy in Moscow predicted: "Relations aren't permanently hurt by this. It's just a shoving match...
...pacifier. One of the rescuers, a nursing mother, quickly put the child to her breast. It seemed likely that these would be the last of the estimated 7,000 survivors who have been pulled from the wreckage. "With every day the moans are decreasing," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov. By Friday the French, British, West German and Italian teams had given up the search and returned home and the official American relief team was packing away its equipment. At the beginning of this week, the Soviet army, concerned about infection from the rotting corpses, planned to send in demolition...