Word: yevgeny
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Soviet officials at the U.N., whose own careers will be compromised by Shevchenko's defection, hastened to offer other explanations. Second Secretary Yevgeni Lukyantsev of the Soviet Mission insisted that "Shevchenko had a drinking problem. It is quite possible that the FBI or the CIA caught him." One of Shevchenko's aides at the U.N., Vyacheslav Kuzmin, believed to be the KGB officer who was assigned to keep him under surveillance, asserted that "he is a sick man who must be sent back to Moscow so he can get the medical care he needs." Other U.N. officials speculated...
From Russia with love came ebullient Poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko. In Rome on a patriotic mission-to read some poems at a gala Italian program in honor of the 60th anniversary of the Russian Revolution-Yevtushenko also went to the theater with an Italian heiress, jogged in the Villa Borghese and told a reporter how deeply he had been affected by Federico Fellini's most recent movie, Casanova. "I am a woman chaser," said the poet, 44, "and Fellini made me understand how hateful it is to touch a woman you don't love. From the moment...
...monument stands over Babi Yar; A drop sheer as a crude gravestone. -Yevgeni Yevtushenko, Babi...
Even without the weekly batch of transients, the Russian presence in Luxembourg is about as subtle as an elephant at a garden party. Ambassador Yevgeni Kosarev, a dour commissar-type who bores his fellow diplomats at cocktail parties by talking endlessly about grain crops, supervises an embassy of 36 Soviet officials-roughly one for every 10,000 Luxembourgers...
...Moscow to announce the book. Igor Shafarevich, a world-famous algebraist, told Western newsmen that the aim of the essays was to bring about fundamental changes in the U.S.S.R. Risking arrest, three other dissidents who contributed to the book were willing to be identified: Scientist Mikhail Agursky, Art Historian Yevgeni Barabanov and Historian Vadim Borisov...