Word: vladimir
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...nationalists who claim Kozyrev kowtows to the West. But TIME's Sally Donnelly reports that the Russian President is playing a subtler game. "Yeltsin said much the same thing on September 8. Kozyrev won't be fired anytime soon. But if he's going to make political points with Vladimir Zhirinovsky and the Communist Party, he has to hire a more nationalistic minister, and he doesn't want to send such an ugly message on the eve of his trip to France and the U.S. It's a very delicate balancing...
PEOPLE SUPPOSEDLY IN THE KNOW have been saying for years that Irish poet Seamus Heaney would one day win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Of course, people said the same thing about Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges and Graham Greene, illustrious authors and notorious nonwinners. Against that background, the Swedish Academy's selection of Heaney, announced last week, qualifies as something of a surprise: the laurel went to someone widely seen as deserving...
...WOULD ASK CHIRAC, "EXACTLY FOR whom does France need a nuclear deterrent?" Surely, the problems of rampant terrorism and growing public distaste for your political hubris cannot be affected by such tactics. The world does not need a Western Vladimir Zhirinovsky. MICHAEL ZUCKER Tel Aviv Via E-mail...
Perhaps inspired by the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, Russia's top ultranationalist, VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY, demonstrated his mastery of female issues last week. First he had a stimulating exchange with Italy's most political porn star, ILONA STALLER. The next day he was all business, choking and pulling the hair of Duma colleague YEVGENIA TISHKOVSKAYA when she crossed him during a debate on Bosnia. As he later explained, "Such women dream of being raped, but no one will ever come close to them." How do you say "Foxy!" in Russian...
Russian nationalist and would-be president Vladimir Zhirinovsky finally has broken his silence over an incident in the parliament last Saturday when he choked Yevgenia Tishkovskaya, a female legislator, and pulled her hair during a political debate. As usual, he did himself no favors. Commenting on Tishkovskaya's 100 million ruble ($22,000) lawsuit against him, Vlad opined: "Such women dream of being raped, but no one wants them." As for the impact on his political future? "It will bring me more votes," he boasted...