Word: mikhail
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...into strange alliances. The Other Russia, in fact, is an unlikely motley amalgamation: members of the traditional democratic and liberal Yabloko party; new liberal factions, The United Civic Front and The Popular Democratic Union, led by former world chess champion Gary Kasparov and Putin's former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov respectively; and of the left radical extremist National Bolshevik Party (NBP), led by a flamboyant writer Eduard Limonov. While the liberal groups call for a return to democratic reform, the violence-prone NBP calls for a revolution. Not unlike the Soviet dissidents of old, they're united by their country...
...grittier, jazzier, more daring Western dance had become the new global standard. Now free to emigrate legally, Russian dancers followed famous cold war defectors, like the Kirov Ballet's Mikhail Baryshnikov, West by the dozens, looking for more complex choreography, brighter fame and bigger paychecks...
...banned, he died in December 1941, at the age of 58, along with more than 800,000 other victims who starved during the Nazi siege of Leningrad; his faded artistic prominence was enough to secure him no more than a grave of his own. His works resurfaced only under Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika reform when in 1988 the State Russian Museum in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) mounted an exhibition of Filonov's extraordinary pictures - sometimes dark, at other times euphoric - that later traveled to Paris and Düsseldorf. After that there were only a couple of small shows...
...Staff of the Army - despite opposition from the likes of Republican Senator John McCain - topping it with the implicit gibe that Casey was the "first choice of the professional military." Gates, a former Sovietologist, might fit the same description that Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko once made of newcomer Mikhail Gorbachev. He has a nice smile, but iron teeth...
That report is just one more example of Soviet Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost, or openness, in the media. Over the past year the state-run press has been exploring the problems of Soviet society with unprecedented candor, discussing such once forbidden topics as drug abuse, prostitution and urban blight. In addition, newspapers and TV have covered the kinds of national catastrophes?an earthquake, an attempted airplane hijacking and the sinking of a Soviet submarine?that were once hushed...