Word: izvestia
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...seven new fellows at the Kennedy School of Government's IOP, is the son of Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet premier who faced off against Kennedy during the missile crisis. The second Soviet fellow--Melor Sturua--wrote speeches for the elder Khrushchev while working for the Soviet newspaper Izvestia...
Sturua, a member of Nikita Kruschev's "brain trust" and a journalist with Izvestia for the past 40 years, will run a seminar called "Perestroika--Past, Present, and Future...
...Moscow. Some soldiers are faring even worse; several thousand are reportedly living in tents in the Odessa area. A poll of army personnel taken last fall, even before the influx from Eastern Europe began, found that 91% considered their quality of life "almost unbearable." Such a mood, said Izvestia, was "creating a crisis in the army...
...captain of their ship in his cabin, tie up the other officers and head for asylum in the West. Military authorities learn of the mutiny and set out in pursuit. Sound similar to The Hunt for Red October? No wonder. The incident, revealed last week in the Soviet newspaper Izvestia, turns out to have been the real-life basis for Tom Clancy's blockbuster, the film version of which, starring Sean Connery, is now playing across...
...mutineer was Valery Sablin, deputy commander of the destroyer Storozhevoi. In Izvestia's account, Sablin made his bold move in November 1975, after most of the ship's 250-man crew had gone on shore leave in Riga, the capital of Latvia. The alarm was sounded by a sailor who jumped overboard as the ship was leaving harbor and by an officer who untied himself and radioed, "Mutiny aboard: We are off to the high seas." The apparent destination was Sweden, although another press report last week suggested that Sablin was actually heading for Leningrad to demand reforms...