Word: russian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Here, see what you can make out in Russian!" yelled one of the crew members, shoving a pair of earphones into my hands. The urgent tone of his voice snapped me out of my drowsiness...
...Soviet aircraft, running low on fuel, was asking for clearance to land at Zvartnots airport in Yerevan. I heard someone calling out numbers over the radio in Russian, but his Armenian accent made them difficult to understand. The Soviet pilot was obviously having trouble comprehending the response too, and asked ground control several times to repeat the coordinates...
...long silence, followed by more cryptic exchanges in heavily accented Russian...
...types, Barbara Bush was the only guest wearing the kind of suit a grandchild could spill apple juice on with impunity. She raised the room temperature 30 degrees by engaging in the kind of small talk that keeps international incidents from breaking out ("How do you say cheese in Russian...
...earthquake was the latest catastrophe for the Armenians, an ancient people who through the ages have been massacred, conquered and divided. Their home is a region of mountain ranges and fertile valleys, roughly the size of Maryland, lying in what the Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov called the "high Caucasian maze." Of the republic's 3.5 million people, 90% are Armenian...