Word: tass
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past performance is any indication, Gorbachev may be swinging to the right only to lull conservatives into complacency before swinging back toward the middle. TASS political analyst Andrei Orlov explained Gorbachev's recent behavior as "a carefully hatched multistep maneuver aimed at changing the alignment of political forces in ((his)) favor...
...typical Soviet fashion, perestroika took another lurching step forward last week. TASS, the government news agency, announced formation of a Moscow Stock Exchange, the first since 1917. The new exchange already has 187 prospective companies and banks. Soviet securities will be represented overseas by international brokerage firms. And Moscow's Big Board plans to open offices in other world financial capitals, like Tokyo and New York...
...came and went with little incident. The rumors bubbled on -- even though conspiracy theorists cannot agree on who is supposed to be plotting against whom. While most talk is of a coup mounted by military conservatives eager to institute a law-and-order regime, Vladimir Petrunya, a commentator for TASS, has charged that it is reformist radicals who want to overthrow the government. Each side accuses the other of deliberately creating shortages to increase the public anxiety and unrest that would be conducive to a coup...
...Americans could not stomach having Castro's Cuba right next door to them. Sooner or later the U.S. would do something. It had the strength, and it had the means. As they say, might makes right. How were we supposed to strengthen and reinforce Cuba? With diplomatic notes and TASS statements...
While Khrushchev and Sturua spend the semester at the IOP, Alexander Merkushev, an editor for the Soviet Tass news agency, will be a fellow at the Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy...