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...Soviet Union, people have usually kept their views to themselves. Thus it came as a surprise last week when the Soviet daily Izvestia published an interview based on two public-opinion surveys. The polls were the latest example of Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost, or openness...
...order to allow seizure of assets was signed late Tuesday by U.S. Magistrate Ralph Geffen and Kroll said he received his copy yesterday. He said the order allows attachment of assets of the government newspaper Izvestia, the Ministry of Foreign Trade, two export agencies and the Soviet government itself...
Gregorian took the unusual step of suing the Soviet government and Izvestia for libel, seeking $10 million in damages and payment for medical supplies which were delivered before his expulsion...
While arguments with the doctors went on, worse things began. On July 3, 1983, Izvestia ran a letter from four academicians replying to Andrei's article in Foreign Affairs, "The Dangers of Thermonuclear War." Though Andrei stressed "the absolute inadmissibility of nuclear war" and called for "complete nuclear disarmament based on strategic parity in conventional weapons," the Izvestia letter charged that Sakharov "calls for nuclear blackmail directed against his own country." A flood of letters began, as many as 132 one day, that berated and maligned Sakharov. Soon, the magazine Smena published an article by Yakovlev expanding on what...
...government daily Izvestia quoted a cruise-ship seaman, identified only as "Helmsman Smirnov," as saying "We saw the bulk carrier in the distance. The duty officer started calling it by radio. We took its bearing and realized that the ship would cross our path. After a few moments came the Pyotr Vasev's answer: 'Don't worry. We shall steer clear of each other. We shall do what is needed.' " Yet the freighter failed to change course. Another newspaper report charged that the Admiral Nakhimov's captain was negligent. Both captains were arrested and are in custody pending the outcome...