Word: zadornov
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...Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko cooled expectations, saying that liberalization "doesn't mean the removal of limits." Shortly afterward, Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref promised that all restrictions would be lifted. Who's right? "I'd rather give credence to Khristenko's stance as more realistic," says Mikhail Zadornov, former Finance...
...comic could when, in the late 1970s, he publicly poked fun at Leonid Brezhnev's bushy eyebrows. A year before Gorbachev came to power a Moscow comedian was banned from television for a year for making fun of an unnamed KGB general. But when Mikhail Zadornov, a Leningrad satirist and television personality, submitted his story to Theater, the editors apparently thought the mock letter was suitable to print...
Adopting the voice of a resident of a dingy town that Gorbachev supposedly had visited, Zadornov informs the Soviet leader how the place had been hastily spruced up by Communist officials before his arrival: "In those three days they managed to do more for our city than they had during all the years of Soviet power...
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