Word: kremlins
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...never previously recorded. He said a lone Russian commander in Cuba--not Nikita Khrushchev or anyone in Moscow--held the authority to launch tactical nuclear weapons in case of a U.S. invasion. Castro also claimed that Khrushchev inadvertently read him a letter sent by John F. Kennedy to the Kremlin during the crisis. In the letter Kennedy promised to quietly withdraw U.S. missiles from Italy and Turkey if Khrushchev would remove the missiles from Cuba. It has long been known that Kennedy made the offer concerning Turkey, but mention of Italy...
...later back in Russia, Yeltsin, 64, was flown by helicopter from one of his dachas outside Moscow and rushed to intensive care at the Central Clinical Hospital in the city's western outskirts. The Kremlin announced that he was suffering from myocardial ischemia, the same blockage of the blood supply to the heart that early last summer had sent him to the hospital for two weeks and kept him out of work for nearly a month. For the next several days, Yeltsin was in virtual isolation, seeing only his doctors, family and bodyguards. His aides, looking somber, gave assurances that...
From 1962, when Nikita Khrushchev sent him to Washington, until 1986, when Mikhail Gorbachev brought him home, the warm, wary and perceptive Dobrynin saw the cold war from an extraordinary vantage point: as the main conduit for a quarter-century of Kremlin-White House secret negotiations. As dubious exposes and skimpy memoirs poured out of the Soviet Union following its 1991 collapse, Dobrynin's remained the great untold story. Now the diplomat who had such confidence in his memory that he never took notes until meetings were over has put it all down in writing and delivered...
Since the Soviet flag was lowered from the Kremlin for the final time in 1991, however, things have changed. The days in which we could simply and unilaterally "bomb 'em to hell" when the occasion arose are finished. Regional conflicts call for complicated, multilateral resolutions. And because collective initiative is harder to set in motion, most conflicts are too large in scale by the time action is taken to be conveniently solved by our much-favored hit-and run air -strike. We learned this a little in the Gulf War; the Bosnian conflict has bitterly rubbed...
...Russian President Boris Yeltsinis now ready for some serious rest. Today, the 64-year-old President left his suite for the sprawling Barvikha resort west of the capital, where he'll remain for an indefinite period under his doctors' supervision. The rest of the world, already suspicious after the Kremlin was caught releasing a 3-month-old photo of Yeltsin, has little else to go on. Russian television today simply showed Yeltsin receiving a bunch of flowers inside the Central Clinical Hospital, then his motorcade speeding away through the hospital gate.Yeltsin apparently has a form of heart diseasecalled unstable angina...