Word: trud
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...banks were closed. The Socialists, led by Zhan Videnov, a former regional chief of the Communist Youth, more than doubled energy prices and public transport fares. The central bank then boosted interest rates to 300% in an attempt to choke off inflation. An editorial last week in the newspaper Trud supplied what could have served as a straight line for Marie Antoinette: "Bread is becoming a luxury...
...first postcoup interview, Raisa told the Soviet trade-union newspaper Trud she was so terrified that the plotters would kill her and her family that she suffered speech problems and an "acute bout of hypertension" for which she is still being treated. "Those days were horrible," she said...
...arrived from Moscow to see him and that all the phone lines were dead, including the "red phone" that links the President to the Minister of Defense. The whole family quickly agreed they would stick by the President at all costs. "This was a very serious decision," Raisa told Trud. "We know our history." This may have been a reference to the Bolsheviks' grisly execution of the last Russian Czar, Nicholas II, and his family...
Raisa told Trud, "I never thought such a thing ((as the coup)) could happen to us." But in her autobiography, I Hope (HarperCollins; $20), completed four months before the failed putsch, the Soviet First Lady says she has long been anxious about the "fierce struggle now going on between loyalty and treachery" in the Soviet Union. In the book, actually an extended interview with Soviet writer Georgi Pryakhin, Raisa discloses for the first time that her grandfather was executed under Stalin, an experience that made her both fearful and contemptuous of apparatchiks who act one way "when...
...turnaround has been presided over by TASS Director General Leonid P. Kravchenko, 51, who took up his job 15 months ago, after serving as editor in chief of the trade-union newspaper Trud and as a top official at the state committee for television and radio. Sitting in his walnut-paneled office on the eighth floor of TASS headquarters, located just a few blocks east of the Kremlin, Kravchenko declares that there should no longer be any taboo subjects for TASS reporters. "We are going through our own perestroika here," he says. "I want our journalists to be known...