Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviets' Vladimir Semyonov at the SALT meeting in Geneva one sunny morning last week, they did not shake hands at the door. It was not because there was any bad feeling between them but because Semyonov, a deputy foreign minister of the Soviet Union, subscribes to an old Russian superstition that it is bad luck to shake hands on a threshold. That is one of the many small oddities of negotiating with the Russians. Although the world's attention is periodically focused on highly publicized encounters between Secretary of State, Cyrus Vance and Soviet Foreign Minister, Andrei Gromyko...
Scattered throughout the agreed-upon text are pairs of alternately worded passages in brackets. These are the provisions and definitions still in dispute. In the English version, the U.S.-proposed wording comes first and is numbered 1, followed by the Soviet proposal, numbered 2; the Russian version has it the other way around. The brackets sometimes embrace a single word or number, sometimes a lengthy paragraph, sometimes a semantic fine point, sometimes a major issue on which ratification itself could depend. Slowly and cautiously, following detailed orders from their respective capitals, the negotiators are chipping away at the brackets that...
Seeking to learn more about her new husband's country, Christina Onassis recently asked a friend: "Who is Dostoyevsky?" One wonders what the great Russian novelist, a master of morbid psychology, would have made of last week's strange marriage in Moscow. Would he have found a chapter in The Possessed for impulsive, dark-eyed Christina, 27, the twice-divorced, jet-setting daughter of the late shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis? Would another Karamazov brother have emerged from his reflections on her spouse, Sergei Kauzov, 37, a former sales representative of the Soviet ship-chartering agency Sovfracht...
...throng of Western newsmen and Soviet reporters (who have yet to report the big event in Moscow's Russian-language papers) looked on as the newlyweds departed. The wedding itself was attended by only eleven guests, none of whom were from the bride's family. Like other members of the tight-knit international shipping community, they are uncertain what impact the marriage will have on the $500 million Onassis fleet, in which Christina has a 48% interest. (The rest is held by the Monte Carlo-based Alexander Onassis Foundation, which is run by a troika...
...Lake Baikal and the town of Magadan, the site of several Stalin-era prison camps. Afterward, the couple will share a 2½-room flat with Sergei's mother until they buy an apartment of their own. Christina says that she will assume the quiet life of a Russian housewife and start a family. "I don't know why reporters want to find out something spectacular about Christina and me," says Sergei, who earns $120 weekly tutoring pupils in English. "We are just ordinary people." Perhaps so. But it remains to be seen how long Christina, who longs...