Word: shalnev
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when the expert on the Soviet economy agreed to be interviewed by correspondents Alexander Vasinsky and Alexander A. Shalnev from Izvestia, the official Soviet government daily, he felt the changes in the Soviet press which have been spurred by Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev's glasnost policies would make the interviewers more evenhanded...
Borovik, Kondrashov, Ovchinnikov, Shishkin, Shalnev--sounded like a backfield. But this was serious business. They were the boys from Novosti, Izvestiya, Pravda and TASS, where most of the Soviet Union gets its daily reading. They were the outriders of Mikhail Gorbachev. Never before had Soviet reporters gone to sit face-to-face in the Oval Office with the adversary. The world has become a giant echo chamber. One arms proposal brings a counterproposal, an interview in the Kremlin yields one in Washington...
...weeks of silence. Then on Saturday morning in a deserted White House, Peter Roussel, another deputy press secretary, was suddenly aware somebody was standing at his door. It was the Washington TASS man, Alexander Shalnev. Could he come in and please close the door? a wide-eyed Shalnev asked. The Kremlin would accept the offer--well, sort of. Speakes & Co. wanted assurances the President's words would actually get to the Soviet people. The Soviets would only say that Izvestiya had "indicated an interest" in publishing the interview. Reagan said go ahead...
...four Soviet writers jetted to the U.S. to join Shalnev. They checked into the Madison Hotel, one of capitalism's lush decampments. The White House crew asked them to lunch at another sophisticated watering hole in the Jefferson Hotel. There was much laughter and goodwill and joking about Gorbachev's cutting down Soviet vodka and, of course, a hearty round of Bloody Marys for the occasion...
Then a break. Shalnev asked for the President's autograph. He lent Reagan his pen. The other four lined up for the same, and Reagan scratched out his signature with a wry smile...