Word: leonide
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drawings he had taken and arranged for their transfer to his future place of work, the Shusev State Scientific Research Museum of Architecture in Moscow. And there they remained, unseen, under wraps, for 45 years. When Baldin became director of the museum in 1963, he began to petition first Leonid Brezhnev and then Mikhail Gorbachev for permission to give the works back to Germany...
...Defense Minister Pavel Grachev and Interior Minister Victor Yerin. Some veteran Moscow watchers are reminded of the last year of the Mikhail Gorbachev era, when the father of glasnost and perestroika tried to crack down on independence-minded Lithuania. Others watch Yeltsin take the lead, then fade, and recall Leonid Brezhnev's lingering, fatal lassitude...
...more and more of it -- especially since his prospects of being re- elected in 1996 currently seem as shaky as Clinton's. In one recent poll, Russians were asked whether they would rather live in the "state system" headed by Yeltsin or in the one ruled by the late Leonid Brezhnev, whose leadership of the Soviet Union was long derided as the "period of stagnation." Brezhnev...
...certain perverse sense, I hope this may lead to more community spirit in the House," said Leonid Fridman '85, who is a resident math tutor...
...millions of dollars of aid to the former Soviet republic. The agreements followed Ukraine's decision last week to give up its nuclear arsenal and relinquish its position as the world's third-largest nuclear power. Today, President Clinton promised $200 million in new U.S. aid to President Leonid Kuchma over the next two years on top of $700 million already approved by Congress to help dismantle nuclear missiles. He also pledged to support Ukraine's independence -- particularly important for a country existing in uneasy proximity to Russia, which ruled Ukraine for more than 300 years.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin...