Word: pravda
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Such land leasing has already been introduced experimentally in some areas, with great success. Pravda reported two weeks ago that a group of families permitted to lease part of a state farm in Belorussia increased onion production more than six times that of the state-run enterprise's output two years earlier...
...line with the mounting pressure for greater openness, the KGB has launched a public relations campaign. During an interview with Pravda last month, Chebrikov asserted that his personnel were now emphasizing "new attitudes." He acknowleged there had been "grave violations" of legality during Stalin's days and stressed his support for "broader democracy and greater openness...
Nonetheless, high-level indignation over the Churbanov affair and the moral decay of the Brezhnev years was registered last week in Pravda. In a scathing article titled "The Son-in-Law and His Clan," Churbanov was depicted as a vain and ambitious man of limited abilities who exploited his connection with Brezhnev to climb up the hierarchy of the Soviet police. The newspaper made clear that he was only a tool in the hands of others, who were operating a mammoth racket in Uzbekistan to falsify cotton-production reports and swindle the state...
...come this season are two formidable challenges for the Guthrie and its audience alike. One is Rumanian Director Lucian Pintilie's harrowing vision of Ibsen's The Wild Duck, stressing its social-class conflicts, first seen at Arena Stage in 1986. The other is the U.S. premiere of Pravda, a 1985 London hit about the takeover and corruption of serious news media by a tycoon whom critics likened to Rupert Murdoch. Wright is looking forward to them confidently. "Thanks to the long and rarefied history of the repertory at this theater," he says, "the audience is much better educated than...
Akhmatova, whose former husband was executed by the Bolsheviks, was denounced by Soviet authorities and only received some recognition in the years before her death in 1966. So there was a touch of poetic justice last week when Pravda announced that an asteroid discovered by Soviet astronomers will be named Akhmatova in honor of the centennial of her birth next year...