Word: gorbachev
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...Western media hit Russia by storm after Gorbachev opened the borders with his radical policy of “Glasnost,” or openness, in the mid 1980s. Russians were besieged by Western television, film and fashion. Now, women watch Brazilian soap operas and aspire to dress like Julia Roberts and Giselle. The Western media even seems to have made Russia’s holy babushka (grandmother) an anachronism here...
...metaphor as any for the unique odyssey of the collection of atoms that was Andrei Sakharov. The life of the dissident Russian physicist - acclaimed as both the creator of the Soviet H-bomb and the conscience of his country - spanned the years from Lenin to Gorbachev, the rise and fall of Soviet communism and the triumph of physics. Who but Sakharov could so personify such an age? Now, more than 12 years after his death at 68, the remarkable Russian is the subject of an authoritative, entertaining and compelling new book, Sakharov: A Biography (Brandeis University Press; 465 pages). Written...
DIED. ALEXANDER LEBED, 52, blunt, charismatic Soviet general instrumental in defending the Russian parliament against a 1991 coup by communist hard-liners; in a helicopter crash in Siberia. When President Gorbachev was taken hostage by hard-liners seeking to overturn his reforms, Lebed, a hero of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, offered what turned out to be critical advice to emerging leader Boris Yeltsin: to forcefully rally the confused Russian troops by declaring himself the military's supreme commander. Though the regional governor's national visibility had waned in recent years, he remained a popular figure...
...year," he said. "Now we are delighted because we had 100,000 last season." Abkhazia's subtropical beauty drew both the élite and the masses to its Black Sea coast in Soviet times. Joseph Stalin and his secret police chief Lavrenti Beria had dachas here, as did Mikhail Gorbachev. Cows now graze around Stalin's dacha, while Beria's is occupied by a senior U.N. official trying to negotiate a peaceful settlement to the dispute with Georgia. The luxuriant richness of nature here - trees and plants forever threatening to displace human habitation - is obviously what has kept people alive...
...result of these efforts, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 (D.-Mass.) intervened on his behalf. Kennedy met with Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev in 1986 and pushed for Ozernoy’s release...