Word: moldavian
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...drill team in Moldavian mufti, all spit and polish in braids and boots, the company has raised folk dancing to a highly regimented, breathtakingly athletic art form. Drawing inspiration from the more than 100 different ethnic groups in the Soviet Union, but predominantly Russian in personnel and outlook, the company remains the personal expression of its founder, Choreographer Igor Moiseyev...
...Pedagogical Institute. The luckiest break in his career came in 1948, when he was sent to the former Rumanian province of Moldavia, where a frenzied "Sovietization" campaign was in progress. Chernenko became the chief of Agitation and Propaganda, or Agitprop. Leonid Brezhnev subsequently was named first secretary of the Moldavian branch of the party. Not long after Brezhnev took over the Soviet party leadership from Nikita Khrushchev in 1964, he moved Chernenko to Moscow and made him head of the party's General Department, where he ran the day-to-day activities of the Central Committee. Chernenko became a full...
...officially controlled press has acknowledged, in almost painful detail, an environmental calamity that seriously polluted one of the U.S.S.R.'s major rivers: the Dniester, which is a vital source of fresh water for the rich agricultural lands of the southwestern Ukraine and the small Moldavian Soviet Republic...
Tried after three months of solitary confinement, Uspensky was sentenced to five years in a Moldavian labor camp. At the camp he was assigned to help perform autopsies on dead convicts. "This was supposed to help reeducate me in an ideological way," he remembers sardonically...
...Soviet standards, the career of new Politburo Member Konstantin Chernenko, 67, has zoomed upward meteorically. A husky, silver-haired bureaucrat, Chernenko has for years served in effect as Brezhnev's chief of staff and virtual alter ego. He is a member of the so-called Moldavian Clan, the group of Soviet apparatchiks who hitched their careers to Brezhnev's when he served as first secretary of the Moldavian Communist Party in the early '50s. Chernenko headed the Moldavian party's propaganda department. After Brezhnev succeeded Nikita Khrushchev as party chief in 1964, his protege first became...