Word: russias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discussion of East-West relations may be somewhat more encouraging. Last week the U.S. and Russia announced that they would resume working-level negotiations on SALT I early this month. Late in May, high-level talks are expected to start again. The announcement seemed to confirm Carter's claim that the quick adjournment of the SALT talks in March was not as calamitous as many observers made it out to be. Basically, there are no differences between the Europeans and Carter on the need to make detente into a two-way exchange, with benefits for both East and West...
...49th state possesses more coastline than the rest of the nation. It boasts North America's tallest mountain, the nation's third longest river and, in addition to Alaskan brown bears, the world's largest land carnivores, a glacier the size of Rhode Island. Purchased from Russia in 1867 for a paltry $7.2 million, Alaska also contains some of the country's richest and most extensive mineral deposits. As a result, it has become the center of a classic clash between environmentalists, who want to preserve some of its spectacular and environmentally unique sections for posterity...
...pilgrimage for art connoisseurs visiting Moscow. Nowhere else in the world could one see such, a concentration of major works by Russian artists whose output is still insufficiently known in the West. The eventual fate of the Costakis collection has therefore been a subject of much guesswork both in Russia and outside it, but now the question appears to be settled. Under the terms of an agreement with the Soviet Ministry of Culture, Costakis is giving about 300 paintings to the government, with the understanding that they will eventually be shown as a group in a still unfinished Tretyakov Museum...
Official Thaw. It is a moment of some importance, for it signals an official thaw in Soviet attitudes to the cultural avant-garde of the past. Before Lenin died and the hand of Stalin squashed experimental art like a bug, the link between "revolutionary" art and revolutionary politics in Russia was closer than it has ever been in the West. The idealist abstract order of works like Lissitzky's Proun, 1919, was deeply connected to social visions of Utopia: when Tallin designed his extraordinary spiral tower as a monument of the revolulion, there was no doubt in his mind...
...leaving." Being a Greek national, he is thinking of settling in Greece, but he may also go to the U.S. An astute businessman, he refuses to estimate the value of the paintings that the Ministry of Culture is letting him take out of Russia. (In view of the prices now being paid for major works of the early Russian avantgarde, it could run to more than $3 million on the Western market.) Costakis plans to sell only "a few, enough to support...