Word: viktor
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...between the Russian side and the Americans on how to promote the team. Or more important, on how to make it self-sufficient. Nights of rinkside fun and fantasy have already cost upwards of a million dollars. On the day of a game last week, Warshaw approached Russian coach Viktor Tikhonov with a request from one of the team's sponsors, Pittsburgh's Iron City Beer, to have advertising patches put on the jerseys. Tikhonov, who is revered in Russia for his guidance of the Red Army and Olympic teams, turned him down. "It's bad luck to do anything...
...weary, rambling speech Saturday afternoon, Yeltsin suggested that in a week of compromise talks with Khasbulatov, Zorkin and Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, he could produce an agreement that might end the power struggle. The President's face looked puffy, and he paused often, setting off mutters among his foes that he was drunk. Maria Sorokina, a Deputy from Lipetsk, her voice almost breaking, went to the podium to say she had been a Yeltsin loyalist and had worked for his election in 1991. No longer, she said. With heavy sighs, referring to the President's speech, she asked, "How long...
...West has been highly critical of the Soviet nuclear legacy but has done little to alleviate the danger. Foreigners come mainly to gather data on the effects -- medical, industrial and political -- of accidents, and then disappear. "Sometimes we feel like rabbits in a laboratory," says Viktor Ribachuk, Ukraine's deputy environment minister. Ukraine officials argue that they cannot do without nuclear power for the next five or six years, and many contend they will need it permanently...
...Vice President, Alexander Rutskoi, to form Civic Union, which is probably the best- organized political faction in the country. Yeltsin, zigzagging between conservatives and reformers in the same manner he denounced when Gorbachev was doing it, has named conservatives to three of Russia's eight deputy premierships, and installed Viktor Gerashchenko, who once ran the Soviet Gosbank, as head of the new Russian central bank...
...Viktor Oshchenko, a diplomat in the Russian Embassy in Paris, was a British double agent for years. Last month Moscow asked him to come home. Fearing the worst, he defected to London. MI-6 is now debriefing him at a safe house. He must know plenty: Moscow has since recalled at least a dozen of his fellow spies from Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands. Oshchenko specialized in stealing science and technology secrets. Says a senior British diplomat: "The Russians' need for everything is more desperate than ever because of the country's abysmal shape...