Word: komsomolskaya
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...block from our hotel. The Tadzhiks are really furious and glance with undisguised hostility at Alexandra and me; a Soviet photographer suggests we acquire official military passes from the Interior Ministry, two blocks away. At the ministry there are eight Soviet correspondents. "These economic demands are stupid," says a Komsomolskaya Pravda reporter. "How can the Tadzhiks demand economic independence when they import a billion more rubles each year than they export? The religion is just a pretext. The young people pay no attention to the mullahs...
...party circles, that the "leading role" of the Communist Party, enshrined in Article 6 of the constitution, will have to go -- as long as there is a referee to ensure that the emergence of a multiparty system does not result in social anarchy. The Communist Youth League daily Komsomolskaya Pravda has a candidate in mind: "Today he is the only one who is able to become the rallying point and broker among the multitude of political and social forces in this country. After all, he is our President." Gorbachev could not have said it better...
...Communist Party youth daily, Komsomolskaya Pravda, disclosed last week that two senior colonels, both veterans of the nine-year war in Afghanistan, sent a telegram to Gorbachev and Defense Minister Yazov two weeks ago urging them not to use force in Azerbaijan. Military intervention, they warned, would lead to a "complete disruption in relations" with the local people and "trigger the growth of anti-Russian feeling...
...near accident at a similar reactor in 1976 was hushed up. Most disturbing is the contention that safety violations are still going on. Budko and journalist Vladimir Kolinko, for example, say that food grown in contaminated soil is still being distributed to children, among others. And last week Komsomolskaya Pravda, a Moscow daily, published a story by Vladimir Lipsky, president of the Byelorussian branch of the Soviet Children's Fund, charging that infant disease is on the rise and that officials have authorized construction of 43 kindergartens in affected areas...
Earlier in the year, the newspaper Socialist Industry reported an "encounter" between a milkmaid in the region of Perm and a cosmic creature that looked like a man but was "taller than average with shorter legs." Last week the Soviet newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda declared that not only had an Abominable Snowman been caught stealing apples in the Saratov region but researchers had "registered the influence of energies" at a site in Perm, leading a geologist to conclude that they had discovered a landing field for flying saucers. The same story transcribed a telepathic discourse between Pavel Mukhortov, a journalist from...