Word: svetlana
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...national holiday marking the defeat of Nazi Germany, but many others were fleeing radiation from Chernobyl. Spokesmen at Moscow's Kievsky Station said extra trains had to be added to handle the crush. Said a Kiev passenger who arrived with two young children and identified herself only as Svetlana: "We started to believe that it might be dangerous for our children at home. They can stay with their grandmother until we know whether it will be safe for them to return." She added, "Most of the people are calm, but those with young children and pregnant women are getting concerned...
...course of true love never did run smooth, but the affairs of confessed Soviet Agent Svetlana Ogorodnikova have proved particularly bumpy. Over the past two weeks, Ogorodnikova has disrupted the Los Angeles espionage trial of her former paramour, ex-FBI Agent Richard Miller, with sobbing assertions of his and her innocence. "Richard is not a traitor of his country," she told the judge in chambers, and "I am not Russian spy." Instead, she portrayed herself as a boozy, lovelorn emigre who rebounded to Miller after she was jilted by his colleague, former FBI Counterintelligence Agent John Hunt. Hunt has denied...
...Svetlana told the Washington Post last week that she returned to the Soviet Union primarily to see her two older children, Joseph and Yekaterina, who were 22 and 17 when she left them in 1966, and her two grandchildren. She claimed that the Soviets directed the script for her return press conference. Said she: "They made me write texts in Russia, which they all approved. I felt very awkward. I wanted to say simply, 'I came to join my children...
Within days of her arrival she was reported to have fought bitterly with her son, a Moscow doctor. A few months later, her daughter, a geologist who spends most of her time on Kamchatka Peninsula in the Soviet far east, announced that she wanted no contact with her mother. Svetlana and Olga moved to Tbilisi, in Stalin's home republic of Georgia. In Gori, his birthplace, many still revere the dictator who brutally ruled the Soviet Union for 24 years...
Authorities accorded the mother and daughter privileges reserved for the elite. They were given a large apartment, a car and a driver. In Gori, the museum honoring her father opened a section devoted to Svetlana, featuring letters and presents they exchanged in her youth. When she arrived in Moscow three weeks ago to arrange her departure, she and Olga moved into the Sovietskaya, a hotel where foreign dignitaries normally stay...