Word: leningraders
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...foreigners we stayed in special hotels, ate otherwise unavailable food and were able to shop in restricted foreign currency stores. Our guides led us to the front of hour-long lines at the Hermitage in Leningrad and at St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev...
...comic could when, in the late 1970s, he publicly poked fun at Leonid Brezhnev's bushy eyebrows. A year before Gorbachev came to power a Moscow comedian was banned from television for a year for making fun of an unnamed KGB general. But when Mikhail Zadornov, a Leningrad satirist and television personality, submitted his story to Theater, the editors apparently thought the mock letter was suitable to print...
...Brennan Klose '90 and Catherine Boyle '89 were chosen in a nationwide application process to represent the U.S. in debates in Moscow, Leningrad, Kishinev and Minsk. They will be joined on the two-week trip by a third student--a Soviet emigree who attends the University of California at Northridge...
...that any help we could organize, we gladly would," said Olmsted, who was in the Soivet Union at the time to discuss exisiting exchange programs between Harvard and libraries in that country. The subcommittee will be meeting in mid-April to discuss possible actions, among them sending volunteers to Leningrad and initiating efforts in the United States to microfilm and collect replacement texts in the United States...
...Leningrad library contained one-of-a-kindhistorical documents and is akin to the Library ofCongress in its importance, said Marshall Goldman,associate director of the Russian Research Center."The fire is not only a tragedy for the SovietUnion, but for any scholar," he said...