Word: moscow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MOSCOW: Quick, find Boris an heir. With Russia's President Yeltsin reduced to conducting the affairs of state from his hospital bed on Monday, Kremlin insiders were planning his succession. The problem is that constitutionally, Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov can rule for only 100 days, after which new presidential elections would have to be held. Which is why the Kremlin wants to revive the vice presidency scrapped by Yeltsin, and tap Primakov for the post. "As vice president, Primakov could take over as interim president until the 2000 elections," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. And that would...
...these ships are traveling at 4.5 billion miles an hour, are loaded with 2 million tons of high-end proton neutralizers each and are traveling through the Milky Way at vector coordinate 5.88, how long will it take for them to reach Earth? Should the aliens conquer Paris, London, Moscow and New York themselves, or delegate these tasks to a better-trained corp of omnivorous, rock-eating arthropods from the planet Grock? Please be prepared to comment on these case questions during the informational session, where you will meet employees recently graduated from such schools as Harvard, MIT, Dartmouth...
...sometimes says, is a process of mutual concessions. He has been able to establish a good working relationship with U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. And officials at NATO, one of Primakov's least favorite organizations, say they view the new Russian Prime Minister as a stabilizing force in Moscow's relations with the West. "Primakov is smart, and he's realistic," a NATO official remarks...
...Georgian capital of Tbilisi, where his mother Anna was a gynecologist attached to a local textile factory. The family home was a 14-sq-m room in a kommunalka--a communal apartment where kitchen and toilet facilities were shared by a number of families. He left Tbilisi for Moscow in the late 1940s to study Arabic. Another neighbor headed for Moscow at the same time--his future wife Laura. They were soon married and later had two children, Alexander and Nana. After graduation, Primakov became a journalist, first for the state radio corporation, then as Middle East correspondent for Pravda...
...Primakov cannot wave Russia's current disaster away. Wages have to be paid on time, even if the government still cannot afford payment of back salaries for a while. The nation's idled factories have to start production again--even if they are not producing anything of great quality. Moscow theorists say the Russian public gives its leaders a three-month honeymoon. Primakov, who took office in September, is halfway through his. It is time to step out from the shadows...