Word: vestnik
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...after months of searching, Tatyana Abramova, a reporter at the newspaper Murmanskiy Vestnik, happened upon the deck cabin of the Kursk in a dump outside Murmansk, the largest city north of the Arctic Circle, and a few miles from the headquarters of the Northern Fleet. "It was like seeing people who had died," Abramova says, of finding the hulking section that once wrapped around the central nervous system of the 154-ft. (47 m) sub. Abramova's father and uncle, like so many men in this city pockmarked with Khrushchev-era apartment blocks and cell-phone billboards, were once submariners...
Internationalism & Practicalism. Nowhere is the confident new sense of relaxation more obvious than in the academy. The violent personal attacks on scientists for unorthodox ideas have disappeared from the academy's monthly magazine, Vestnik. The cry of "cosmopolitanism" is no longer heard, and President Nesmeyanov himself has declared that "internationalism is a specific of science." On this all scientists would agree. Except for what is military and secret, a scientific advance for one nation is an advance for all. As for the party's former insistence on practical results, Nesmeyanov simply turned the tables on the West...
...keep the "party character" alive within the academy. Through Topchiev, the party still belabors scientists with demands that they "must not hold aloof from the ideological struggle," and if deviating intellectuals no longer disappear from the face of the earth, they can still disappear from the pages of Vestnik. After accepting an invitation to The Netherlands recently. Physicist Landau asked if he might bring along a friend. The friend, though billed as a fellow scientist, seemed to Landau's hosts to be more of a political chaperon. Freedom, it seems, can still ebb and flow like the tide...
...speaking the words so "unevenly and hurriedly" that she felt she was "doing something immodest" in hearing them. In the winter of 1864 he nervously read the beginning of the novel, War and Peace, aloud to a few friends; soon after, the first section appeared in the magazine Russky Vestnik, under the title 1805. "[It] still seems a little weak," said Author Tolstoy apologetically. "It will probably go unnoticed...
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