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Moscow's response was far less generous. For the second time since coming to power, Andropov chose to respond personally to a U.S. initiative through an interview with Pravda. He began by conceding that part of what Reagan said was correct: "True, the Soviet Union did strengthen its defense capability. Faced with feverish U.S. efforts to establish military bases near Soviet territory, to develop ever new types of nuclear and other weapons, the U.S.S.R. was compelled to do so." But then he struck back, saying of his American counterpart: "He tells a deliberate lie asserting that the Soviet Union does...
...Novi Sad listened respectfully to the tributes at the Feb. 26 funeral of Zoran Vujovic. The rector of his university said the 20-year-old Serb had died expressing "justified anger" at the West. His uncle called him "one of the many martyrs of Kosovo." And the tabloid Pravda declared: FAREWELL TO THE SERBIAN KNIGHT! Amid the eulogies, the circumstances of the engineering student's death bear recalling: having broken into the U.S. embassy in Belgrade on Feb. 21, he was incinerated when a fellow protester tossed in a Molotov cocktail. For the mourners, Vujovic was simply doing his duty...
...Yeltsin's death, his erstwhile Chief of Staff Sergei Filatov told a Russian web site that Yeltsin had confided his unhappiness with Putin dismantling everything he had created and stood for. Putin's policies, said Filatov, chagrined Yeltsin to the point of expediting his demise. This week, Komsomolskaya Pravda, a Gazprom-owned, heavily pro-Kremlin Moscow daily, ran its list of Yeltsin's top mistakes and top achievements, "built on our audiences' opinions." It held that his biggest mistake was dissolving the Soviet Union. And that his last great achievement was handing over power to Putin. If Russians are thinking...
...hear the government's spokesmen tell it, the vote would determine nothing less than the future of the world. EITHER UNION OR CHAOS, a Pravda headline blared. "The disappearance of the Soviet Union from the world map," a TASS commentator pointed out, would "result in the disruption of the world's political and strategic balance." Certainly true, but whatever results the referendum might accomplish, eradication of the Soviet Union is not one of them...
...glasnost have penetrated Soviet press treatment of the outside world, however. Capitalist countries are still routinely described as being plagued by unemployment, labor strife and racism, while news of the East bloc consists largely of stories about factory openings and trade agreements with Moscow. In one issue last week, Pravda, which usually devotes two of its six daily pages to foreign news, carried items about a student strike in France, a protest in India over the handling of the Bhopal disaster, a "crisis in the rightist camp" in Spain and a controversy about a book on the British intelligence services...