Word: russian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next few weeks, Leonid Abalkin, a close economic adviser to Gorbachev, is scheduled to speak at the Russian Research Center...
Harvard's Russian Research Center has received three grants totaling more that $1 million for the next three years, officials announced last week...
Fradkin said the foundation decided to fund the Russian Research Center, though it had not done so in the past two years, because "the area of Soviet Studies has been neglected in the past few years...
After the Soviet government withdrew the mission's 260 Soviet employees 16 months ago to protest the expulsion of its diplomats from Washington, the State Department hired a private U.S. contractor to fill the vacancies. When the firm had trouble finding Russian-speaking American maintenance workers, it hit upon the idea of sending over budding Kremlinologists...
American diplomats no longer need worry whether nanny is a spy. The graduates, paid a starting salary of about $1,300 a month, improve their Russian and learn about the Soviet Union. Says Nancy Carney, 22, a Tufts University graduate, during a break from scrubbing floors at Ambassador Jack Matlock's residence: "I'm having a ball...