Word: kozyrev
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...walking the tightrope between the demands of Russia's ultranationalists and the desire to bring the country into a closer partnership with the West is Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev, 43. In an interview with editorial director Henry Muller, managing editor James Gaines and International managing editor Karsten Prager last week, he spoke about some of his concerns...
...onstage. For 35 minutes, while the principals came and went from the podium, their attention was all too plainly elsewhere. Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres remonstrated with Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, Prime Minister ^ Yitzhak Rabin with Peres, Arafat with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev with Secretary of State Warren Christopher. Rabin kept shrugging angrily while Arafat stood stonefaced. Then the entire group walked off the stage...
...Moscow surprised many by its willingness to spread some of the blame this time to the Serbs. "They told us that nothing was happening and that they had no military plans involving Gorazde," said Churkin. "We have certain complaints against the Bosnian Serbs." On Saturday, Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev, who had been consulting with Secretary of State Warren Christopher, arrived in Belgrade, which no doubt played a hand in the Serbs' sudden willingness to initial the agreement...
Moscow's foreign policy reflects both trends, an ambivalence that is perhaps best embodied by Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev. Once viewed as a staunch pro-Western liberal and roundly denounced as a "traitor" by hard-liners, Kozyrev has recently begun spouting belligerent nationalist rhetoric that harks back to the cold war. During the past several months, he has admonished Eastern Europe against joining NATO, hinted at keeping Russian troops in the Baltics and sternly warned republics not to mistreat ethnic Russians. Observers are left to speculate that the Foreign Minister's new stance may be a signal that the only...
This time he is not kidding. And because he is not, Kozyrev, a man who truly represents Russian moderation, has given the world a measure of how far Russian moderation has traveled in the past year. For months Russia has been interfering in neighboring republics, notably Georgia and Azerbaijan, to bring them under Russian domination. Withdrawal from the Baltics is stalled. And Belarus, which agreed to scrap its currency and restore the ruble, is in effect being economically annexed...