Word: semyonov
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets last week disclosed a few new details about the accident. In Vienna, Boris Semyonov, a governor of the International Atomic Energy Agency, raised the official death toll from nine victims to 15, and said that 20 people remain gravely ill from radiation sickness. Members of the energy agency later agreed to draw up plans to provide early warning and detailed information about future accidents. While Soviet papers did not report the new death toll, some publications continued to complain about exaggerated foreign reports of the disaster and wildly distorted rumors. One tale making the rounds, according to the weekly...
Family members who met Bonner in Italy did not feel similarly bound. At a press conference in Rome, Alexei Semyonov, Bonner's son by her first marriage, and her son-in-law Efrem Yankelevich offered a glimpse of the painful isolation that has been endured by the Sakharovs, who were kept under constant surveillance by police. Neighbors and shopkeepers were barred from talking to them. Bonner and Sakharov, 64, were separated at least twice. When the Soviet government released film footage purportedly showing the Sakharovs strolling through Gorky last summer, he was actually on a hunger strike in Semashko Hospital...
...Semyonov said his mother will likely receive heart surgery to treat a condition she has developed from three heart attacks and also undergo treatment for glaucoma if she comes to the United States. This would mark the fourth time since 1975 that Bonner has been allowed to seek medical treatment abroad...
...Semyonov said the family yesterday received two encouraging reports about her possible permission to leave the Soviet Union and said her return appears a "strong possibility." He refused yesterday to disclose the nature of those reports...
...Semyonov said he expects Bonner to return to the Soviet Union after she receives the treatment...