Word: izvestiya
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Soviet officialdom treated the visit with a mixture of politesse and disdain. In the days leading up to the Moscow concert, there was no mention of the Horowitz visit in either Pravda or Izvestiya, only a brief announcement in the newspaper Sovietskaya Kultura. Soviet musical commissars explained the lack of coverage by observing the concert was already sold out. "We think of him as an American pianist," said Tikhon Khrennikov, the all-powerful first secretary of the Soviet composers' union, who nevertheless went to the concert. In response to the American attack on Libya, the Soviets boycotted a dinner...
...question is whether he will have the means to push through the socially painful reforms that are necessary now." This pro-Western stance does not sit well with Putin, and Yushchenko hasn't done much so far to improve relations with Moscow. In an interview with the Russian daily Izvestiya, Yushchenko last week said that the order to assassinate him came from "those in power." The interview was meant to mollify Russia: Yushchenko stressed that his first foreign visit would be to Moscow. But few could fail to spot the implicit link between those in power in Kiev...
...conceivable measure, Duranty’s reporting in 1931 was an utter failure. “It reads like Pravda and Izvestiya in English,” historian Mark von Hagen tells me, citing two of the leading Kremlin press organs of the time. Von Hagen, Professor of Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian History at Columbia, was commissioned by the Times this summer to conduct an independent study of Duranty’s 1931 coverage of the Soviet Union...
...asked why he had yet to declare his candidacy. "But should we have a Duma mostly occupied with in-house squabbles ... the President will be tied hand and foot." So the Kremlin has tightened media controls as the election nears. Mikhail Kozhokin, editor-in-chief of the major daily Izvestiya and a cautious Putin critic, recently resigned, a move widely believed to have been instigated by the Kremlin. The once independent NTV now prerecords most of its flagship Freedom of Speech talk show. And in September the government appointed a new board to run the country's most credible polling...
...viewed by the government in Kyiv as "peaceable vegetable growers," as Popovich puts it, strange things are happening there. Arabs from Saudi Arabia and elsewhere are providing funds and supplies of extremist Islamist Russian-language literature from Chechnya, according to Yanina Sokolovskaya, Ukraine correspondent of the Russian daily Izvestiya. A Tatar paramilitary organization, 100 or so members of which reportedly fought in Chechnya against the Russians, is quietly training in the hills of Crimea. And the idea of "marrying Crimea to Chechnya," Sokolovskaya says, is becoming more and more popular among young Tatars. The immediate issue before Kuchma, however...