Word: nikolais
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...people had died. When some Western papers carried increasingly sensational but unconfirmed accounts of the reactor's condition, TASS reported that the fire was under control. At week's end the official Soviet news agency buttressed earlier claims of the plant's safety by reporting that Politburo Members Nikolai Ryzhkov and Yegor Ligachev had toured the damaged facility...
...longer is the Soviet approach to the outside world epitomized by Andrei Gromyko, the man who made iron pants, stone walls and, of course, nyet so much a part of the vocabulary of diplomacy. Under Gromyko, Soviet foreign policy was much like WrestleMania's archvillain Nikolai Volkoff, whose technique consists of grappling his opponent to the mat and sitting on him. With Gromyko kicked upstairs to the largely ceremonial post of President and Gorbachev's protege Eduard Shevardnadze in charge of the Foreign Ministry, Soviet diplomacy now resembles Ivan Drago, the sleek and powerful Soviet boxer portrayed in the movie...
...test of wills with Washington on that one issue. American steadfastness and NATO solidarity turned out to be stronger than Soviet bullying. When the U.S. missiles went in, the Soviets had no choice but to walk out of arms-control negotiations. That outcome left them looking like Nikolai Volkoff sulking in his corner...
...whispering campaign about alleged alcoholism, retired from the Politburo last July. One day later Andrei Gromyko, who had served as Foreign Minister since 1957, was promoted to the honorific post of President. Last month Admiral Sergei Gorshkov, who had commanded the Soviet navy since 1956, was replaced. Nikolai Tikhonov, who had been Premier since 1980 and was closely tied to the Brezhnev era, stepped down in September on a common Soviet pretext: poor health...
...Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov, 56, cut his teeth in the Siberian town of Sverdlovsk and gained a reputation as a forceful administrator. Boris Yeltsin, 55, who replaced Grishin as Moscow party boss, also came from Siberia. When Yeltsin heard grumbling about poor bus service in the capital, he reportedly rode the overcrowded vehicles himself, then ordered the head of the city transport department to do the same...