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...bulldozer's driver seat with us or the bulldozer rolls over you.'" Savinkov says his next visitor was an officer from the FSB, Russia's domestic security service, who warned that the agency would have problems should Savinkov fail to cooperate. That's when Savinkov and his colleague Vladimir Ovchinnikov, editor-in-chief of Svobodnyi Kurs, a Barnaul-based weekly, drafted the protest letter. "It's not about Ryzhkov really," says Ovchinnikov. "It's about the regime [the Kremlin] is once again imposing on this country. We don't want to let it happen." Altai's journalists are bracing...
Another explanation -- that the problems extend beyond engineering and involve crew training -- came from an unexpected corner. In the current issue of the Soviet publication Smena, which went to press well before the Echo II accident, a Captain V. Ovchinnikov criticized in the letters column the training of submarine crews: "It will probably surprise you if I say that the nuclear installations on our submarines are operated by people who are not sufficiently trained, and some of them not trained at all. But we still set sail. The operators know and can do only 30% to 50% of what they...
Borovik, Kondrashov, Ovchinnikov, Shishkin, Shalnev--sounded like a backfield. But this was serious business. They were the boys from Novosti, Izvestiya, Pravda and TASS, where most of the Soviet Union gets its daily reading. They were the outriders of Mikhail Gorbachev. Never before had Soviet reporters gone to sit face-to-face in the Oval Office with the adversary. The world has become a giant echo chamber. One arms proposal brings a counterproposal, an interview in the Kremlin yields one in Washington...
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