Word: stavropol
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...terrorist raid unprecedented since the Russian civil war of the 1920s, more than 80 Chechens crossed into the neighboring Stavropol territory, concealed in trucks supposedly transporting coffins from the war zone, to launch a daring assault at high noon on the city of Budyonnovsk (pop. 100,000), some 70 miles from the Chechen border. Splitting into squads of five and six, the gunmen -- armed with automatic rifles, machine guns and grenade launchers -- fanned out across the city, joining up, according to Russian security officials, with rebels already in place...
Gorbachev knows firsthand what mankind can do to the environment. "I first saw the dangers in Stavropol, where poor farming practices produced sandstorms that carried away topsoil," he said during an interview with TIME. While in the Kremlin, he confronted one horror story after another of skies blackened by smokestacks, rivers ruined by toxic wastes and fields flooded by ill- conceived dams. "Farmers rebelled against these outrages," he said, "but because of the command system, their revolt was not heard." Then came the explosion of the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, which "was the final argument. All of us then...
...subway and trams. But romantically, her world blossomed. She speaks poignantly of meeting Mikhail Gorbachev at a student dance and of their love, which deepened on long walks and ice-skating dates in Sokolniki Park. Soon after marrying in 1953, the Gorbachevs moved to Mikhail's birthplace of Stavropol, where Raisa taught college and her husband began his climb through the party ranks...
...opulence of the Politburo villa that he was offered (and turned down) in 1987, wickedly reminding readers along the way that the house had once been assigned to Mikhail Gorbachev. As party first secretary in Sverdlovsk during the 1970s, Yeltsin enjoyed the same perks that Gorbachev received in Stavropol province in the south. But while Gorbachev took to the privileges like an English earl to a grouse-shooting party, Yeltsin seemed to feel he had got them by sneaking over the earl's fence...
...rose rapidly. A vigorous, workaholic leader, he spared neither himself nor his subordinates. In 1976 Leonid Brezhnev unexpectedly promoted him over the heads of more senior officials to the post of Sverdlovsk provincial first secretary. He soon met and became friends with Gorbachev, by now his opposite number in Stavropol. "When I entered Gorbachev's office," Yeltsin wrote in his autobiography, "we would embrace warmly. The relationship was a good...