Word: izvestia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Izvestia had very kind words for him, the first in more than five years. And Pravda sang the praises of his "clear, realistic and emotionally powerful music. The composer felt fully the pathos of the heroic lives of the young Komsomols; he also understood the producer...
...Russian press has grown from 884 to 7,163 papers with 31,100,000 circulation. Pravda alone claimed 2,200,000, which made it Russia's biggest and the world's fourth biggest daily.* Pioneer Pravda, for young Communists, was second with 1,000,000, and Izvestia third with...
...last week, Secretary Kohonen did not show up for work. A glance at Izvestia told Magidoff why. In a long letter to the editors, she roundly denounced him as a U.S. spy. In his files, she wrote, she had found queries from McGraw-Hill, asking for information on underground factories, atomic developments and air transport. She said that the replies had gone by diplomatic pouch, to avoid the censors...
...Fleet accused Swedish General Helge Jung, commander in chief of the Swedish armed forces, of trying "to use the Swedish armed forces as an appendage of the American military machine and to subject the foreign policy of Sweden to the expansionist activities of the U.S. in northern Europe." Izvestia warned Norway that "the Marshall Plan holds nothing good for Norway except that it endangers her independence and is fraught with her complete subjugation to foreign imperialists...
...meeting called by the Central Committee, Shostakovich and Khachaturian (among others) had dutifully flayed themselves. But Izvestia hadn't found the act convincing. They admitted their mistakes, said Izvestia, but "their halfway, insufficiently self-critical statements naturally did not satisfy." There was nothing halfway in what the Politburo's Andrei Zhdanov told them...