Word: viktor
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...welcome the chance to show some hospitality," says Viktor Tumanov, a foreign-trade official. "But such occasions are still exceptions to the rules. We want the rules changed. The more our people see of the outside world, the more they want to be part...
...Cuba policy will change until Washington's does. Castro's disdain for perestroika is well known, but the Soviet subsidy of Cuba continues unabated at between $3 billion and $6 billion annually, depending on who is counting. "We have conservatives too," explains the Kremlin's Deputy Foreign Minister, Viktor Komplektov. "There is so much else to push that it is simply easier to avoid a fight with those who idolize Fidel." With Gorbachev thus constrained, the path to perestroika in Havana runs through Washington. "Talk to the Cubans," Gorbachev has told Bush. "Something can be worked out. Castro...
Many of the Deputies obeyed, but enough bucked Gorbachev to elect Yeltsin by a four-vote margin in the 1,060-member parliament. "Electing Yeltsin was the only way to preserve the trust of the people," said Moscow Deputy Viktor Shinkaretsky. "This buys us some time." Others blamed Gorbachev for bungling the campaign by attacking Yeltsin so much. "We're responsible to the voters, not to Gorbachev," said Vladimir Ispravnikov, a Deputy from Omsk. "When the party apparatus leans on Yeltsin, it only helps...
Seated under a portrait of Lenin in his Foreign Ministry office in Moscow last week, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Viktor Komplektov explained that initial response to Washington's strategy. "We never believed that Central America was the key to improved superpower relations," he said. "We did, however, believe that Central America is especially important because conservatives consider the region as a litmus test of a President's toughness." This led Moscow to misinterpret Bush's opening. "Who was Bush but Reagan's man?" says Yuri Pavlov, the Soviet's top Latin America policy assistant. "That's how we incorrectly looked...