Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, Alexiades, whose ancestors were Greek, served for a year as Miss Greek Orthodox Youth Association (GOYA). She oversaw fundraising measures, cultural events and the GOYA Olympics...
...some 6,000 demonstrators remained, refusing to leave. Catholicos- Patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church Ilya II warned the crowd of an impending "horror," but he was hooted down. Suddenly the streetlights went out, and darkness descended on Rustaveli Prospekt, the city's main avenue. Waves of soldiers, supported by tanks and armored personnel carriers, swept into the crowd carrying clubs and spades. Some citizens fought back with rocks. Others bolted, trampling women and the elderly...
...voted down 15 of them, which means that the academy's leaders must come up with new candidates, presumably including Sakharov this time. The Soviet Peace Committee, a goodwill and propaganda organization, was allotted five seats. Among those elected by the group was Patriarch Pimen, head of the Russian Orthodox Church...
...session with Boris Yeltsin, the party-boss-turned-populist, photographer Ted Thai found it impossible to get him to smile. "So I went over and tugged on his cheek to show him what I meant," Thai recalls. The tactic may have been unorthodox, but Yeltsin is hardly the orthodox Soviet politician...
...faiths are affected by a growing accommodation between church and state in the officially atheistic nation. Last year's 1,000th-anniversary celebrations greatly enhanced the privileges of the Russian Orthodox Church. This year the long-suffering Jewish community opened its first school for rabbis in 60 years, and Lithuania's Roman Catholics got their first full lineup of bishops in 40 years. A similar renewal is taking place among the 55 million Muslims, who constitute the world's fifth largest Islamic population (after Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh and India). By some estimates, ^ Muslims will make up one-fourth of Soviet...