Word: rossiya
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never heard or seen anything quite like it. For ten days, Boney M, a four-member Jamaican reggae-disco group whose recorded tunes consistently top the pop charts of Europe, wriggled and pranced through a sellout engagement at the huge 2,700-seat concert hall at Moscow's Rossiya Hotel, while mounted police held back thousands of other fans and onlookers outside...
...acting under Peking's orders.) The Tokyo-Peking friendship treaty, signed last August to the dismay of Moscow, has been interpreted by Pravda as a diabolical device by China "to force Japan onto the path of its preparations for a third world war." Says the newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya: "China is striving to subordinate the African states to its dictates," in hopes of using thinly populated areas of the continent to resettle its excess population...
...been expelled from the Soviet Writers' Union and threatened with exile from his country. The official press regularly denounces him; only last week the newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya, in a poem that did not name Solzhenitsyn but was plainly aimed at him, charged that he "long ago defected with his soul...