Word: vremya
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moscow's new media celebrity is Joseph Mauri, 58, of New York City, who has become something of a regular on Vremya (Time) during his expense-paid tour of the Soviet Union. Muscovites first saw him last April as the star of The Man from Fifth Avenue, a 90-minute Soviet-made documentary about poverty in New York. The film shows close-ups of homeless men, then cuts to a specialty shop that sells chinchilla bedspreads, bottles of $1,500 perfume and designer pistols. Mauri, who acts as tour guide, is portrayed as a prime example of American capitalism...
Moscow let this offer pass, while barely containing its glee over Gorbachev's urbane performance. The main Soviet evening TV news program, Vremya, devoted a full hour to reading the interview text, while TASS, the official news agency, rounded up favorable comments from as far away as Zimbabwe. The U.S.S.R.'s state publishing house put on sale, at ten kopecks (12 cents) each, 200,000 copies of a 30-page booklet containing the text of the interview as compiled --and slightly censored--by TASS. The agency deleted a joking allusion to an aged Soviet Finance Minister and a glancing mention...
While the stylish Raisa, 51, made headlines in the West last December when she accompanied her husband on a trip to Britain, only recently has she begun to enjoy press coverage at home. Over the past month, the nightly TV news program Vremya has three times run footage of the General Secretary's wife. Last week, as she played hostess to visiting Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and his wife Sonia, many Soviets seemed more interested in Raisa's comings and goings than in the political and economic results of conversations between Gandhi and Gorbachev. "Raisa...
...against the miners. At the same time, however, it calls attention to a recent episode that London and Moscow would rather forget. At the end of October, eight days after Thatcher announced the Gorbachev visit, a Soviet trade union official appeared on the main Soviet evening TV news program Vremya to announce a total embargo of Soviet fuel exports to Britain. Five days later the embargo was firmly denied by the Soviets, and it was passed off by British diplomats as a mistake by an overenthusiastic functionary...
...Wednesday. Nikolai Shchelokov, the Minister for Public Order, had just delivered a brief television address to celebrate Militia Day, and millions of Soviet viewers were awaiting the live pop concert that was supposed to follow. Instead, without explanation, a film about Lenin was broadcast. Then, at 9, came Vremya (Time), the nightly news. The announcers, who usually dress informally, wore dark jackets or dresses. "I ran to my neighbors to find out if they knew what was going on," a Moscow secretary said. "Everyone was excited. We all thought somebody had died, but nobody guessed it was Brezhnev...