Word: krasnodar
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...Yeltsin of favoring a "collapse" of the Soviet Union. But at the end of the week, Vlasov withdrew his candidacy after a verbal drubbing from speakers at the Russian Congress of People's Deputies. The only serious remaining rival to Yeltsin was Ivan Polozkov, the conservative party boss from Krasnodar who has made no secret of his support for another Gorbachev rival, Yegor Ligachev...
...appalled by what he has seen out his limousine window and in reports brought to him by long-faced ministers than by satellite photographs of American missiles aimed at Moscow. He has been discouraged and radicalized by what he has heard from his own constituents during his walkabouts in Krasnodar, Sverdlovsk and Leningrad -- not by the exhortations, remonstrations or sanctions of foreigners...
...quintuple nuclear power output by the year 2000. But officials underestimated the fears created by the accident. Komsomolskaya Pravda, the Communist Party youth newspaper, disclosed last week that the government had made an unprecedented decision to scrap construction of an atomic power plant in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar (cost so far: $43 million) simply because residents were adamantly against it. Krasnodar is not alone. The article said residents of some two dozen localities are "fiercely" protesting atomic energy stations operating or being built in their areas...
...conservative critics, Reagan appeared to be swallowing outrageous Soviet insults, the latest delivered by none other than Gorbachev on Soviet television. Chatting on Thursday with residents of the southern Russian city of Krasnodar, the Soviet leader called Daniloff a "spy caught in the act." Since Reagan had assured Gorbachev in a personal letter that Daniloff was only a journalist, Gorbachev was in effect calling the President a liar...
...opted for a trying-to-have-it-both-ways policy: demanding Daniloff's freedom while continuing to negotiate on an arms bargain and a summit. Though Soviet Foreign Ministry Spokesman Boris Pyadyshev expressed hope that the Daniloff affair could be settled "quietly," Gorbachev's nearly simultaneous comments in Krasnodar caused some Western diplomats in Moscow to fear that the Kremlin was digging itself into a position that would force it at least to put the journalist on trial. It is possible, of course, that Daniloff could then be sent home, expelled rather than released. But the only terms on which...