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Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov cited the "personal chemistry" she enjoyed with Mikhail Gorbachev and lauded her for helping to end the cold war. "She was the first ((in the West)) to recognize Gorbachev | as a world leader, the first to say she could do business with him, and that gave him the ammunition to approach others like Reagan and convince them he was a man to be trusted." Newspapers in Eastern Europe lamented Thatcher because of her unwavering stand against communism and her insistence on human rights. From Britain's partners in the 12-nation European Community, tributes...
...presentation for fear of being refused permission to return home. He was probably correct: four years later he was exiled from the Soviet Union. Soviet-born poet Joseph Brodsky was already in exile in New York City when he won the prize for literature in 1987. Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov thought it was "a good thing" that world attention would be focused on Russian poetry, but he was sour about Brodsky, who had been sentenced to a work camp in 1963 for the crime of "parasitism." "The tastes of the Nobel Committee are strange sometimes," said Gerasimov...
When freedom broke out across Eastern Europe last year, Soviet spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov enunciated "the Sinatra Doctrine." Each newly liberated Soviet satellite, he explained, was now free...
...allay Moscow's anxieties. At the summit the Soviets repeated their call for a replacement for both NATO and the Warsaw Pact: a vaguely defined "Greater European Council," which would be part of the 35-nation Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Said Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov: "We want a united Germany to be integrated into an all-European system...
Touche, Ivan. But the argument is worth following one more step. Gorbachev has infinitely greater might on his side than Lincoln did in the Civil War, but considerably less right. And he knows it. Unlike Lincoln, Gorbachev has already conceded secession in principle. His ever droll spokesman, Gennadi Gerasimov, talks about divorce. By setting a price on its property in Lithuania, Moscow has opened negotiations on alimony...