Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always been closed, from the days before the Czars through a history that owes little to the West. As for the new gatekeeper, he will reveal himself when he and the state from which he is inseparable are ready. In Speak, Memory, Nabokov tells of awakening mornings in the Russia of his boyhood and glancing at the chink between the white shutters to see what the new day proffered: gloom or "dewy ( brilliancy." The West has no shutters it can open, and the glimpses it gets show almost nothing. This is the way we have learned to live with...
...some West European publications that a positive new era was unfolding in the Soviet Union. The German weekly Stern headlined the story of Gorbachev's ascendance with the question A RED KENNEDY? A more ponderous query followed: "Does he have the spirit of Peter the Great, who opened Russia to the West in the 18th century in order to strengthen it?" But not everyone--certainly not government officials and analysts who specialize in Soviet affairs--echoed any such attitude. Said West Germany's Heinz Brahm, a director at the Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies: "We can expect...
College scouts were not the only one to notice Bausano as a high school phenom, a Russia, wrestler coach who had defected from the USSR also recognized potential in Bausane...
...defected from Russia when I was in my sophomore year in high school, and he ended up in Michigan. He was part of their national coaching staff and was a wrestler himself. He noticed me a the ate tournament, and I won a few close matches ten tout to a fourth place finish as a sophomore) and he decided he wanted to work with...
...want to continue the game," protested Karpov half convincingly after Campomanes' announcement. "As we say in Russia, rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated." (Apparently, Russians read and claim Mark Twain.) Kasparov, who had been sitting in the back of the hall, was stunned. Striding onto the podium, he demanded to know why the match had been called off. "You knew I wanted to continue," he shouted, shaking his fist. "They are trying to deprive me of my chance." With that, he stormed out of the auditorium. To quell the ensuing pandemonium, an unaccustomed diversion at Soviet press conferences...