Word: murmansk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...changes over the past four years. Despite the understandable fears for the future, some of Russia's reforms have become so embedded that dislodging them would be difficult. As Zyuganov himself has said, "We understand that if we start taking factories back, there's going to be shooting from Murmansk to Vladivostok...
...stories, many of which shared the same moral: "The military lies. Corporations lie. We don't lie." Twilly Cannon, from Missoula, Montana, the boat's captain, endured months in 1990 stalking the Soviet navy as it prepared to ditch another spent nuclear reactor in the Kara Sea northeast of Murmansk. Michelle Sheather, an Australian, was on the Rainbow Warrior when the French blew it up, and had left the ship 15 minutes before the limpet mines went...
RECOVERING. BORIS YELTSIN, 64, President of Russia; from a blood-supply problem in his heart that triggered chest pains; in Moscow. Yeltsin has canceled all engagements until next week, including trips to Norway and the Russian city of Murmansk. RECOVERING. LES PAUL, 80, musician and father of the electric guitar; after collapsing while preparing to travel to a Nashville birthday concert; in Mahwah, New Jersey. OUSTED. G. KIRK RAAB, 59, president and ceo of biotech giant Genentech; following the revelation that he had requested a personal $2 million loan guarantee from Roche Holding Ltd. while negotiating a merger with...
...they had to have their own national armies. Most Soviet naval bases were in Russia, but Ukraine was quick to claim the Black Sea Fleet, which had its home port in Ukraine's Sevastopol. Without warning, Russia ordered the newest aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, to its port of Murmansk. Yeltsin later defended the transfer, noting that the Black Sea Fleet was "historically Russian." But he grudgingly conceded that Ukraine is entitled to "a share" of the Black Sea Fleet...
Officials in Washington and Western Europe make similar observations about Yeltsin. One of them says Yeltsin is "trying to impose at the republic level what he opposes at the national level," that is, centralized control of the vastness of Russia. The residents of Murmansk, the official argues, "don't want Yeltsin any more than Gorbachev telling them what to do." The leaders of other, smaller republics probably feel the same...