Word: kiev
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Three other American universities. Columbia, Indiana, and Yale, are participating in the program with their "sister Institutions," Moscow, Tashkent, and Kiev. Columbia may be the first to follow Harvard in the exchange. Four of its professors will lecture at the University of Moscow and an equal number of Russians will visit the Columbia campus later this year...
Three other American universities, Columbia, Indiana, and Yale, are participating in the program with their "sister institutions," Moscow, Tashkent, Kiev...
Leading the playbill is a performance of the ballet Lileya by the Kiev State Opera Company. If you don't listen to the amusingly propagandist narration, or pay too much attention to the equally amusing, equally nationalistic plot, and are not bothered by the rough edges of some of the Russian camera techniques, the dancing and the music are probably worth your last evening before Christmas vacation...
...days, while Bennett was detained in a Kiev hotel, Kaminsky was kept in solitary confinement and grilled up to eight hours a day. Last month the Russians put Kaminsky on trial for spying, invoking the same article of the Soviet constitution under which U-2 Pilot Francis Powers was convicted. (The Russian press called him "a Powers of the ground.") Advised by the prosecution that the government did not intend to go hard on him. Kaminsky entered a plea of guilty. Bennett appeared as a witness for the state, conceding that Kaminsky's photographs were hardly "usual...
Slive's visit marked the first time an American educator has lectured at a Russian university since the Lacey-Zarubin agreement proposed such an exchange nearly three years ago. That agreement laid the groundwork for exchanges between Harvard and Leningrad, Yale and Kiev, Columbia and the University of Moscow, and Indiana and Tashkent, but so far only Harvard and Leningrad have been able to carry out the program...