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...committed suicide in 1925. Himself a poet of prominence, Esenin-Volpin had been arrested as a ringleader of the short-lived demonstration in Pushkin Square that demanded a public trial for Andrei Sinyavsky, generally believed to be the pseudonymous Abram Tertz, and Yuli Daniel, who wrote under the name Nikolai Arzhak (TIME...
Meeter & Greater. Mikoyan's succes sor as Soviet chief of state is Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny, 62, who rose to power as a protege of Nikita Khrushchev's. A hard-bitten Ukrainian with little experience in foreign affairs, Podgorny's main claim to power in the hierarchy was his control of party cadres-a job he may well lose as a result of his "elevation." The Soviet presidency is largely ceremonial, and without strong party posts its occupant is little more than a meeter and greeter. Podgorny, in short, seemed to have been kicked upstairs, with one nagging...
Alexander N. Shelepin, 47, one of the bright young men of the Soviet Communist Party, apparently replaced Nikolai V. Podgerny, 62, as number two man in the Party yesterday...
Russia is even dragging its feet on the organization of future peace-keeping missions. Soviet Ambassador Nikolai Fedorenko last week rejected a compromise proposal by eight small nations that would allow the Security Council's five permanent members-the U.S., Britain, France, Russia and Nationalist China-to "opt out" of paying for any peace-keeping missions they opposed rather than block the missions entirely...
...guarantees a market for Canada's entire 1965 wheat crop (estimated at 800 million bu.), will boost wheat export earnings to a record $1.2 billion this year and cut deeply into Canada's $453-mil-lion balance-of-payments deficit. In return, Sharp promised Russian Trade Delegate Nikolai Ossipov that Canada would increase its purchases from Russia, now a mere $3,000,000 yearly...