Word: vitali
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...Soviet official made an unprecedented appearance before a House committee Thursday to give Moscow's view of events. In a deft and tough- minded performance, Vitali Churkin, 34, second secretary of the Washington embassy, offered little new information but acknowledged that the crisis was not yet over. "Definitely there has been an accident which has not been liquidated yet and theoretically poses a threat to people outside the Soviet / Union," Churkin said. "We are still trying to manage the situation." He added that the Soviets initially withheld news of the disaster because they wanted to know the extent...
Publicly, however, Moscow describes its nuclear generators as thoroughly up < to date. In an article on Chernobyl in the February 1986 issue of Soviet Life, an English-language publication, Ukrainian Power Minister Vitali Sklyarov boasted that "the odds of a meltdown are one in 10,000 years." In any case, he added, "the environment is also securely protected...
...also known as Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, "the Rambam" (an acronym) and the "second Moses." Religious sage, philosopher, community leader and physician, the Rambam was also culturally complex--a Jew steeped in ancient Greek philosophy who spent his life among Muslims and influenced Christian Europe. As Soviet Scholar Vitali Naumkin told the Paris meeting, "Maimonides is perhaps the only philosopher in the Middle Ages, perhaps even now, who symbolizes a confluence of four cultures: Greco-Roman, Arab, Jewish and Western...
...nuclear winter" theory, which holds that an atomic war would bring about a new ice age by raising dust that would block out the sun's rays, Alexandrov was last seen in Madrid on March 31. The Soviets have also lost an official from their embassy in Rome, Vitali Yurtchenko, who vanished without trace earlier this month. There are no signs that either man has defected to the West. Under discussion at the seminar is a plan to study the consequences of the use of nuclear weapons. The project would require a freer exchange of information than Moscow would...
...four, all members of the Politburo, are Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, 75, Heavy Industry Boss Grigori Romanov, 62, Premier of the Russian Republic Vitali Vorotnikov, 59, and First Deputy Premier Geidar Aliyev, 61. They will probably form the core of the collective leadership that will guide Gorbachev in the beginning. With the exception of Gromyko, a full member of the Politburo for twelve years, they are Gorbachev's contemporaries, members of the long-awaited new generation of Soviet leaders. The generational distinction may mean less in the future than it has in the past, however, largely because Gorbachev shrewdly deferred...