Word: kultura
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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...
...September in the town of Voronezh, 300 miles southeast of Moscow. There it zapped a 16-year-old boy with a gun that made him disappear temporarily. Pelted with questions from skeptics, TASS stood by its story. Said an agency official huffily: "It is not April Fools' today." Sovietskaya Kultura, a Communist Party paper dedicated to the arts, ran the story, claiming it was following "the golden rule of journalism: the reader must know everything...
...Party and government bureaucrats fear lost privileges and deviations from socialist ideology. Even some of the Soviet leader's reform- minded allies have reservations. Economist Gavril Popov, a Gorbachev adviser, has argued publicly that the self-financing plan is doomed to become a "fiction." Writing in the newspaper Sovetskaya Kultura, he said Soviet plants would still sell most of their goods to the government...
...policy has also led to squabbles within the official press. Last month, for example, Molodaya Gvardiya (Young Guard) attacked Ogonyok and Sovietskaya Kultura (Soviet Culture) for their liberal leanings. The two journals shot back with equally harsh words for Molodaya Gvardiya's out-of-date views. Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper, intervened with a commentary calling the articles "rude" and a warning that scores should not be settled in print...
...apartment following the birth of their second son. A few weeks later, while being interrogated during the "verification," or purge, of Polish television, one official even hinted that he could have his old job back. But Maciej and Ewa, 32, a feature writer for the respected weekly Kultura, had already decided that they were no longer interested in being journalists in Poland. Both of them had worked through the 1970s writing pieces filled with allusions and double meanings, trying to slip some truth past the censor. The 16 months of Solidarity's existence had been an exhilirating journalistic experience...