Word: semyonov
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delegations to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT). In the unlikely surroundings of Helsinki's Kaivohuone restaurant, which usually echoes to the beat of restrained rock and the coo of unescorted birds at the bar, U.S. Chief Delegate Gerard Smith and his Soviet counterpart, Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Semyonov, clinked champagne glasses and exchanged pledges of good will while the other American and Russian delegates chatted with one another and munched smoked reindeer canap...
...secrecy and latent suspicion. To the dismay of the 220 foreign correspondents who had come to Helsinki for the opening of the most important disarmament talks in history, the U.S. delegation accepted a Soviet proposal that there should be a complete ban on news announcements and background briefings. As Semyonov explained to newsmen at the cocktail party: "This is a time to see and a time to hear, but it is also a time to be silent with the press...
Guarded Forecasts. Both sides have topflight delegations. The six-man Soviet team is led by Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Semyonov, 58, the No. 3 man in the Soviet foreign office. His chief political aide is Georgy Kornienko, a Russian "America watcher." The others are scientists and generals. In view of the Soviet fetish for secrecy, the appearance of technicians in Helsinki was taken by some Westerners as an indication that the Kremlin plans to bargain seriously...
...Semyonov's uninspired story will not engage Western readers-who will be too busy, anyway, watching for those occasional and probably deliberate glimpses of life in Russia as it really is. Kostyenko, one of the detectives, has been separated from his wife and daughter for years while waiting impatiently for the state to find him an apartment commodious enough to unite them. Telephones don't work; elevators crawl; a refrigerator freezes butter solid...
Eventually, the authorities must have caught up with these subtle gibes at the regime and had a word with the author, a 34-year-old Moscow writer, playwright and film scenarist. In Semyonov's next novel, a paean to the Russian Revolution titled No Password Needed, the bad guys are mostly Americans and Englishmen. The world being what it is, Password will not be made available in the U.S. Publisher's reaction: "Quite unusable...