Word: mezhdunarodnaya
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...journalists accredited to cover the Bush-Gorbachev meetings managed to lay eyes on any of the leaders' key aides, much less Bush or Gorbachev. Some White House regulars were assigned to pools, but most journalists "covered" the events by sitting in the press room at Mezhdunarodnaya Hotel, a mile and a half from the Kremlin. There they read pool reports, watched CNN on projection TV screens, spoke mainly to one another and were given a single diplobabble briefing by the two press spokesmen, Marlin Fitzwater and Vitali Ignatenko...
...engineering output was military hardware, while consumer goods totaled only 6%. Because it has been secret for so long, quantifying the magnitude of the military-industrial complex can be only an approximate business. "We have no way of measuring its size," says Alexei Pankin, deputy editor of the journal Mezhdunarodnaya Zhizn. "The defense industry just takes what it wants, and whatever is left over goes to the civilian sector...
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