Word: siberians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...anxiety to conduct an exemplary public punishment of the Soviet Union, Washington first demanded that its European allies stop supplying American technology for the trans-Siberian pipeline designed to carry natural gas to Western Europe, and when the allies demurred on grounds of legality, economics and sovereignty, the Administration applied sanctions to them...
...were guaranteed that it would reach them. The Defense Department and most of the President's staff, out of genuine outrage but also because of a reflexive belief in the power of the public relations gesture, urged sanctions. To the advocates of this policy, the trans-Siberian pipeline-designed to carry up to 20 billion cubic meters a year of natural gas 3,300 miles from Siberia to Western Europe-was just the sort of highly visible issue that would focus and dramatize Western reaction...
...trip to the Soviet Union came on a whim, without the aid of an In-tourist expedition. Sitting in the Stockholm train station--my train back to Paris was due to depart within in the hour--an advertisement for the Trans-Siberian Railroad interrupted my reading...
...Institute of Foreign Relations, which trains young diplomats and journalists, Vladimir reportedly plays the piano and banjo and likes Western popular music and hard rock. Some sources say Chernenko has a second son, possibly from an earlier marriage, who works for the provincial propaganda department in the Siberian city of Tomsk...
Chernenko was born on Sept. 24, 1911, to a family of Russian peasants in the central Siberian village of Bolshaya Tes. In his youth he signed up with the Komsomol, or Young Communist League, the usual first step for people who want to become members of the Communist Party. In 1931 he joined the party, and a decade later became a local secretary. Chernenko is one of the few Soviet leaders of his generation who do not seem to have fought in World War II. He spent most of the war years in Moscow attending the Higher Party School...