Word: isvestia
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...That Isvestia is the official and responsible newspaper of the Soviet Government which is accordingly responsible for "grossly insulting and mendacious cartoons" of British statesmen...
...murdered his son, and Catherine the Great had one of her ladies-in-waiting "flogged through the trap."* The high point of the performance was a scene showing the astute Tsar Nicholas I cajoling the revolutionary poet Releyef into betraying his associates in conspiracy. Wrote the dramatic critic of Isvestia: "One came away hating the Romanovs like so many viperous snakes...
Finally the 40 man-eating wolves especially captured in Siberia, will battle to the death with 40 savage imperial borzois. . . . Educational, and instructive. . . . The first proletarian spectacle of its kind since Roman times. . . . Next day the Soviet news organ Isvestia sternly announced that no such "spectacle" would be permitted, quoted from the law forbidding prizefights in Russia "because the sport is not conducive to the invigoration of the working masses, but tends to arouse their baser emotions...
...spelling used by TIME is in accordance with the established practice of U. S. papers generally, and with that of the London Times, the Paris Matin. The Moscow Isvestia, irrepressible sheetlet, jumbles the name into one hyphenated word, Abdol-Krem...
Accordingly, Isvestia, official Communist journal of Moscow, said...