Word: mikhail
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Soviet and American diplomats were back at it last week, trying to make an agreement out of the disarmament bombshells that George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev had just finished lobbing at each other. The latest round of benevolent one-upmanship is intended to diminish the danger of war, save money both countries need for domestic spending and set a good example for the rest of the world...
...Full national self-development is the right of any nation," Ulam said, stressing Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's error in refusing to recognize the existence of various cultures and "ethnic diversity" within the Soviet republics...
...persuasive speaker who counts John F. Kennedy and Charles de Gaulle among his role models, Sobchak, 53, is one of the most influential politicians in Russia, behind only Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Yet conservative and liberal opponents alike accuse him of resorting to authoritarianism in running the affairs of St. Petersburg. "God never gave Anatoly Sobchak the talent to work with other people," wrote one critic. Sobchak, a former law professor, dismisses the accusations as the grumblings of "incompetents" on the unwieldy, 382-member city council. Thanks to his national status, Sobchak says...
Last week President Mikhail Gorbachev took yet another chop at the monster. He appointed his close adviser Yevgeni Primakov to head the foreign intelligence division, which will become a separate organization...
With the announcement on Saturday of cuts made by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, Bush's gamble seems to have paid off. With the easing of East-West tensions, we can all rest a little bit easier than before...