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Selecting a spot to pose for the picture you see here, John decided on the entrance to the liberal Moscow News. On the sidewalk he encountered a huckster selling an unofficial broadsheet printed in Minsk. The lead article was titled "Raisa Gorbachev: Who Is She? Translation from TIME Magazine." Says Kohan: "He was doing a brisk business at one ruble per copy." Now that's glasnost...
...first Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party, later to become the Communist Party, consisted of just nine delegates representing four labor unions, a workers' newspaper and the Jewish Social Democratic Bund. The nine delegates met in Minsk on the first three days of March 1898, proclaimed themselves a party, called for the overthrow of the Romanov rulers and then returned to their homes, where eight of the nine were promptly arrested. The fact that the heirs of this absurd little group actually did overthrow the Russian government not 22 years later was due largely to the malign genius...
...encounter with the exiled Georgi Plekhanov, the eminence grise of Russian Marxism; then to meetings with other radicals in Paris and Berlin; then, on his return home, to arrest, trial, jail and exile in Siberia. So Lenin was far away when the Social Democratic Party was born in Minsk and then nearly destroyed. But when he emerged from Siberia in 1900, he once again joined forces with Plekhanov and vowed to start a newspaper that would organize a rebirth of the Social Democrats beyond the reach of the Czar's police. Lenin's newspaper, Iskra (Spark), appeared in Munich...
...latest example of perestroika, a new airline called ASDA is being formed to compete with Aeroflot. Staffed by Soviet air force veterans and disgruntled Aeroflot pilots, the carrier will fly rented Boeing 747s on long- haul routes connecting such far-flung points as Kiev, Kamchatka, Moscow and Minsk. A straight-faced Soviet news report promised that the new airline will raise the level of passenger service. Travelers can only hope...
...Minsk, capital of Belorussia, Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, 43, was named apostolic administrator (acting bishop under direct Vatican jurisdiction), thus becoming the leader of the republic's 2 million Catholics. Kondrusiewicz, a former architect who attended seminary in Lithuania, has been a priest only since...