Word: russian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ignatenko spent four days in Miami with bureau chief James Carney, who speaks Russian. He met Miami Mayor Xavier Suarez, toured the building of the Miami Herald -- and squeezed in a few hours on the beach. We urged him to stay longer, but he had to fly home to Moscow to prepare for another trip. His destination: Beijing, where he arrives this week to plan coverage of the Sino- Soviet summit...
...wasn't sure it said exactly what it was supposed to say, because it's in Russian," he said of the document. "But as soon as I got back I took it over to be translated, and it turned out to be exactly what I thought...
...Soviet leadership closed Tbilisi to foreign journalists, but it could not hide from the truth: the thorny problem of nationalism had erupted in violence yet again in one of Mikhail Gorbachev's non-Russian republics. From the Baltic republics to earthquake-devastated Armenia, greater independence from Moscow has become a rallying cry. The latest troubles began last month, when a minority group known as the Abkhazians, who live in an autonomous enclave in the western part of Georgia, demanded full independence. Georgians, who account for 48% of the population in Abkhazia where Abkhazians are a mere 17%, staged counterprotests, which...
...when Moscow attempted to replace Georgian with Russian as the republic's official language, protesters flooded the avenues of Tbilisi. But the region's party secretary defused the crisis by boldly stepping before the angry crowds and announcing that he agreed with them. His name: Eduard Shevardnadze...
From the social criticism of Shaw, the evening progresses, or rather regresses into utter lunacy that characterizes Henry Fielding's Tom Thumb the Great. While Shaw's play has a tendency to moralize against the so-called "liberal" rule of the Russian empress, Fielding's play serves to showcase the comedic talents of the cast...