Word: yekaterina
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Biryukova, who was responsible for the consumer sector, becomes the first woman named to the Politburo since Culture Minister Yekaterina Furtseva was a full voting member from 1957 to 1961 under Nikita S. Khrushchev...
...Svetlana told the Washington Post last week that she returned to the Soviet Union primarily to see her two older children, Joseph and Yekaterina, who were 22 and 17 when she left them in 1966, and her two grandchildren. She claimed that the Soviets directed the script for her return press conference. Said she: "They made me write texts in Russia, which they all approved. I felt very awkward. I wanted to say simply, 'I came to join my children...
...Yekaterina ("Auntie Katya"), a 90-year-old in a faded woolen coat and thick brown head scarf, carrying a bag of apples: "No, dear, my family didn't discuss the death when they came home; they were all very tired, so they just went to bed. Chernenko? Oh, we all have to die. They all die, and yet I live on. I'll always have bread. Why do you ask, dear? Was he a relative of yours...
...Friend. Well-wishers kept the house she rented in Princeton, N.J., filled with flowers. Fan letters, presents, even proposals of marriage arrived. Academic and society people lionized her. Amid such warm attention, she did not appear to worry unduly about her children in Moscow. Joseph, 22, and Yekaterina ("Katya"), 17, were already grown up, she explained. "The life of my children will not be changed...
...Moscow headquarters of the Committee of Soviet Women. Reading from a prepared text, she said that she had returned to Moscow of her own free will. "I could no longer stand this family separation," she explained, referring to the two children by former marriages, Josef Morozov, now 38, and Yekaterina Zhdanova, 32, she had left behind in Moscow. She said she had been naive about life in the U.S. and had be come a "favorite pet" of the CIA. Said Svetlana: "Having found myself in the so-called free world, I was not free for a single...