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...cataclysmic outcome of that refusal, the Kremlin calibrated its response with great care. Early in the week, the Congress issued a timid resolution urging that "wisdom, sound reason and a balanced approach" prevail in China. Later, caution became less evident. "We hadn't expected this," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov, adding that his government was "extremely dismayed" over the events in China. But Moscow's options were limited. After almost two decades of exchanging ideological insults, the Chinese were scarcely prepared to accept a lecture from the Soviets. In any case, admonitions would only feed lingering Chinese suspicions that...
...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...