Word: igor
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...like Emma Achilli, 30, who was born in the U.K. to British and Italian parents and now works as a consultant in Brussels, the good life means "you go to Spain for an all-night party, to England to drink, to Italy for sing-songs and fine food." For Igor Karpatechev, a 30-year-old Russian now doing graduate studies in Paris, the singular charms of Europe reside in "the flavor of the old châteaux, and all those books and museums. The Americans only live in the present and the future, but Europeans also live in the past...
...been losing credibility with Arafat--something that opened the door to a whole host of other diplomats. As a result, when last week's fighting began to look truly out of control, everyone from U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook to Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov rushed to toss in his 2[cents]. The diplomacy that followed was chaotic and--for the White House at least--downright frustrating. The heavy lifting of trying to bring the two sides together was handled by Annan, who spent a good part of the week dashing from meeting...
...late for that. The opposition had enlisted former chief of staff Momcilo Perisic, fired by Milosevic two years ago, to cajole reluctant generals into accepting Kostunica as President. And Milosevic lost his last hope Friday morning when Moscow, after days of indecision, dispatched Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov to Belgrade to congratulate Kostunica...
...late-night press conference Thursday, he found himself mobbed by journalists and officials seeking his John Hancock on any available piece of paper. Simply to catch his breath, he was finally forced to retreat into a private meeting room off the Security Council chamber. As Putin and Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov made it through the door, his security men blocked anyone else from entering. Left outside among the disappointed autograph seekers were Russia's high-powered U.N. ambassador Sergey Lavrov and Putin's naval attach? - who happened to be carrying the briefcase containing the launch codes to Moscow's nuclear...
...habits of secrecy and confusion during the first days of the disaster. They made no announcement for two days, then issued a bland statement that there had been a "technical fault" and the boat was on the sea bottom. After the seriousness of the accident became clearer, Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev declared that there was "incontrovertible evidence" that the sub had collided with another vessel. In past years Soviet and U.S. vessels have had near collisions while spying on each other, but the Pentagon firmly rejected any suggestion that U.S. submarines were involved. Later, Russian officials dropped the collision claim...