Word: gennady
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They took me by the arms and led me to a small van like a Black Maria. They drove me to an office where a man in civilian clothes introduced himself as a senior counselor of justice, Gennadi Kolesnikov. He charged me with violating Article 190-1 of the criminal code, which deals with "slander of the Soviet state or social system" and can lead to up to three years in a labor camp. In the next room, two women in Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) uniforms did a body search and looked through my bag. They took copies...
Daniloff was back home as part of a multilayered deal that could not be called a deal between the U.S. and the Soviets, which included the no-contest plea and departure of Soviet Spy Gennadi Zakharov, the imminent release of Soviet Dissident Yuri Orlov, and the softening of a U.S. order expelling 25 Soviet employees at the U.N. For 31 days, Daniloff had been the human symbol of the tense, complicated maneuverings between the superpowers. Yet throughout his publicized ordeal, he had not merely symbolized the difficult bargaining between Reagan and Gorbachev but had become a participant, publicly insisting that...
...they set up Daniloff merely in retaliation for the arrest in New York of Soviet U.N. worker Gennadi Zakharov--hoping they could then work out a quiet, straight-forward swap for their spy? Or did they desire all along that the arrest cloud superpower relations and force a U.S. government under pressure to move toward an arms-control agreement to make concessions it would not otherwise make...
...State and the Soviet Foreign Minister at U.N. sessions in New York City, the Daniloff discussions grew urgent against the informal deadline of Shevardnadze's scheduled departure for Ottawa on Tuesday of this week. "If we miss (that date), both sides would be the worse," said Foreign Ministry Spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov. "We don't want that." But the two sides appeared to be unwilling to yield on critical points. "Obviously we desire a settlement as soon as possible," said Shultz, "if it can be settled on the right basis." For the U.S. that means no swap of Daniloff...
...result, the dog seemed to wag the tail for a change: the desire to reach an accord on the major issues dividing the superpowers created an eagerness to resolve, as quickly as face-saving maneuvers would allow, the dispute involving the U.S. News & World Report correspondent and Gennadi Zakharov, the Soviet U.N. employee awaiting trial in New York City on spy charges...