Word: yevgeny
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When speculation first appeared about the age and inferiority of Soviet equipment, the Kremlin uncharacteristically went off like a firecracker. There were angry rebuttals, flurries of military meetings. Leonid Zamyatin, the Kremlin's chief propagandist, went on Moscow television to wash away doubts with his rotund tones. General Yevgeni Yurasov, deputy head of Soviet air defense, gathered up his experts and headed to the Bekaa Valley to study the scorched debris...
...participants-Harvard University Cardiologists Bernard Lown and James Muller and Tufts University Professor John Pastore-discussed such topics as the effects of a one-megaton bomb on a city, medical care for nuclear victims and the long-term effects of radiation fallout. The Soviets likewise avoided ideological confrontations. Said Yevgeni Chazov, one of President Leonid Brezhnev's physicians: "We have come here openly and honestly to tell the people about our movement, whose main objective is the preservation of life on earth...
Meanwhile the Kremlin's top physician shed some light on Brezhnev's condition. In an exclusive interview with TIME'S Moscow bureau chief, Erik Amfitheatrof, Cardiologist Yevgeni Chazov, 53, scoffed at news stories in the West that Brezhnev had been felled by a stroke. Said the doctor: "He has been buried so many times by the foreign press that I have lost count." Chazov, who heads the medical team that treats all the Kremlin leaders, pointed out that he is bound by an oath of confidentiality as regards his patients-including the President. "American doctors would understand...
...visit to Moscow by South Yemen President Ali Nasser Muhammad had been canceled two days before he was to have met with Brezhnev. Reports that Brezhnev had been taken to the gray, five-story Kremlin clinic reserved for Soviet leaders were reinforced when the clinic's director, Cardiologist Yevgeni Chazov, canceled a trip to England, where he was to attend a meeting of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear...
...Yevgeni Pasternak rejects suggestions that Litfund's action is an officially inspired attempt to denigrate his father's memory. Indeed in recent years there have been modest efforts to "rehabilitate" Pasternak. To commemorate the 20th anniversary of his death in 1980, several poems from Doctor Zhivago were printed in the Soviet literary magazine, Novy...