Word: yuri
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...commands in the Soviet army. Kremlinologists were also struck by the fact that Brezhnev, on his return to Moscow from a three-day trip to Budapest last week, was met at the railway station by Grechko, Marshal Ivan Yakubovsky, Commander of the Warsaw Pact forces, and Secret Police Chief Yuri Andropov. Such a turnout, which would ordinarily pass unobserved, seemed to indicate the source of Brezhnev's present strength...
...Grant last March. Friends say that Solzhenitsyn has no idea how the play reached Grani, which is published by a fiercely anti-Soviet organization of Russian emigres in Frankfurt. What particularly worries Solzhenitsyn's friends is that when some other Soviet writers and intellectuals, including Alexander Ginzburg and Yuri Galanskov, were tried and convicted for anti-Soviet activities, their alleged connection with Grant's publishers was cited prominently by the state. Following the Grani incident, the Hamburg weekly Die Zeit published extracts in November of an epic poem, Prussian Nights, attributing it to Solzhenitsyn and promising more...
Last month the play finally opened to cheers at the Taganka, Director Yuri Lyubimov's famous experimental theater in Moscow. For many Russians, its debut seemed to signify a small break in the official campaign to silence Russia's independent writers and intellectuals, including Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Poet Alexander Tvardovsky, who recently handed in his resignation as editor of the liberal magazine Novy Mir (TIME, March...