Word: georgy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets responded peevishly to Shultz's trip, and especially to his rhetoric, which the Communist Party daily Pravda denounced as a throwback to the cold war era. Soviet Americanologist Georgi Arbatov asserted that Shultz has backed down from his pre-summit posture of conciliation toward the Soviet camp and has instead bowed to pressure from "right-wing circles" that, according to Soviet demonology, control the White House...
Another story that made its way to the White House is that the dour Georgi Arbatov, the Soviets' top U.S. expert, was playing Reagan in the Kremlin's dry runs for the Geneva confrontation. The thought is so singular that it provoked laughs in the back corridors of the White House. One wag suggested that if that went well, Arbatov could move on to Hollywood and Bedtime for Bonzo...
...amply supplied with plates of sweet pirozhki (bite-size pastries), mineral water, lemon soda and cut- glass vases filled with colored pencils. Extensively briefed by his aides, Gorbachev had brought along typewritten notes ruled in red, blue and green. He also brought an expert: seated next to him was Georgi Arbatov, Moscow's best- known Americanologist. Viktor Sukhodrev, who has served as the top-level Kremlin interpreter since the Khrushchev era, again acted in that role...
...thing the West does know about the Soviet Union is that the people who run it cling to their posts either until their comrades turn against them and throw them out, as happened with Georgi Malenkov and Nikita Khrushchev, or until Comrade Death intervenes, as occurred with Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov and, last week, with Konstantin Chernenko. One of the more ironic flaws of the Soviet system is that while it is dedicated to the acquisition, consolidation and extension of power, while it prides itself on discipline and the subordination of the individual to the institution...
...high cost and questionable basing mode, the missile is scheduled for a series of crucial funding votes in Congress in the weeks after the arms talks resume in Geneva. Without congressional approval of the MX, argued Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, "the Soviets have little incentive to negotiate seriously." Complains Georgi Arbatov, director of Moscow's Institute for the Study of the U.S.A. and Canada: "It looks more and more as if the new negotiations are being used by the Reagan Administration merely to get more money from Congress for its military programs...