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Soviet diplomats frequently call at the State Department. Particularly since the Geneva summit, there has been a great deal of mid-level diplomacy. So there was no reason to expect anything out of the ordinary when Oleg Sokolov, the Soviet chargé d'affaires in Washington, arrived early last Wednesday morning to see Secretary of State George Shultz. But when Sokolov handed him a lengthy letter from Mikhail Gorbachev to Ronald Reagan, Shultz became the first man in official Washington to be startled by a sweeping and unexpected new arms-control proposal. It was studded with ambiguities and potentially risky approaches...
...Bank, capital flight quadrupled last year, to $9.4 billion. But for now, Western companies seem eager to keep on buying, and it's not hard to see why. Many are lured by the stellar performance of such companies as Eldorado, founded a decade ago by two brothers, Igor and Oleg Yakovlev. The company says its sales jumped 83% last year alone, to $2.5 billion. With numbers like that, Russia may well be a risk worth taking. --With reporting by Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow
...including detention in unknown locations and house arrests. And he says other activists have been harassed or arrested in the country's Fergana, Kashkadaryinsk and Djizak regions. Karimov's government has repeatedly rejected calls for an independent inquiry, despite mounting international pressure. "Karimov is digging his own grave," says Oleg Panfilov, a Central Asia expert in Moscow. "The tragedy is he's dragging his entire country along...
...Western companies seem eager to keep on buying, and it's not hard to see why. Eldorado, which was founded a decade ago by two brothers, Igor and Oleg Yakovlev, has been growing at a phenomenal rate. The company says its sales jumped by 83% last year alone, to $2.5 billion. With numbers like that unreachable in any other emerging market outside of China, Russia may well be a risk worth taking...
...depression is the constant enemy of any defector, and Soviets seem especially prone to what intelligence experts call "the postpartum blues." Yurchenko's case reminded many diplomats of Soviet Journalist Oleg Bitov, who returned to Moscow last year after defecting to Great Britain in 1983. Though Bitov offered a kidnap tale similar to Yurchenko's, British officials are convinced that both men simply had a change of heart. "A feeling arises that . . . 'Mother Russia beckons,' that the West, nice as it has been, is not 'me,' " explains a British intelligence officer...