Word: kopecks
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...death in a 1985 plane crash, the name of the Maine schoolgirl, who visited the Soviet Union in 1983 at the invitation of Communist Party Chief Yuri Andropov, has been affixed to a Siberian diamond, a hybrid violet developed in Lithuania, a street in Yalta and a five-kopeck postage stamp. The homage reached new heights last week with the dedication of Mount Samantha Smith, a 13,000-ft. peak in the central Caucasus just north of the Turkish and Iranian borders...
...live in an age of spaceships, genetic manipulation, the Internet and all kinds of unbelievable achievements. How could we not find a way to supply oxygen to that doomed submarine? The Russian ego has again proved that human lives are seemingly not worth a kopeck. The Kursk disaster was simply murder by the state. Shame on Putin! DIPTENDU CHAKRABORTY Toronto...