Word: zamyatin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet border talks resumed in Peking last week. The atmosphere was anything but cordial. One indication of the sorry state of relations between the two Communist giants came during a Moscow news conference conducted by the Soviet Union's tough but soft-spoken Foreign Ministry press chief, Leonid Zamyatin. In the midst of the conference, Huang Chung-chich, the New China News Agency's man in Moscow, leaped to his feet to ask why the Kremlin had permitted publication of an article in a new Soviet industrial newspaper that referred to Taiwan as a "country." Peking had protested...
...Zamyatin: That's a question for the editors of the paper...
...Zamyatin: Yes, but I only speak for the government. Next question...
...Zamyatin: We have 200 correspondents in this country, and they write what they want. We have freedom of the press here...
...Zamyatin (between his teeth): Well, I could say some things about your country...