Word: vyacheslav
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...father was a plumber, his mother an usher in a Moscow theater. He was an aircraft-design engineer in 1944, when Stalin ordered Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov to start recruiting technicians rather than intellectuals and independent thinkers to staff the U.S.S.R.'s postwar diplomatic corps. From such implausible roots, Anatoly Dobrynin rose to become ambassador to the U.S. for five Soviet leaders and interlocutor for six U.S. Presidents--Kennedy to Reagan...
Detroit's quest for its first Stanley Cup championship in 40 years got off on the right foot as Vyacheslav Kozlov snapped a 3-3 tie at 10:15 of the third period to defeat Dallas...
...bunch. "It was corroded and had holes all over it," says Mikhail Bernstein, an executive at a construction firm that was hired last August to replace the 19-year-old conduit. Local officials don't disagree. "We all know the pipeline should have been repaired," said Vyacheslav Bibikov, Vice President of the Komi republic, in a testy meeting with reporters last week. "There's no money for it." Rather than stop the flow of oil and lose income, Komineft erected earthworks to contain the gathering crude. When the autumn rains came, the makeshift dikes crumbled, and the oil escaped...
...American anger about the Russians' paying Ames to reveal the names of double agents seemed baffling because, in exposing the fact that the U.S. is continuing to spy on Russia, Ames' arrest proves that America is no innocent bystander when it comes to espionage. Yeltsin's chief spokesman, Vyacheslav Kostikov, warned Washington against "returning to the psychology of the cold war and whipping up distrust and a new wave of spy mania...
Yeltsin will also have to rethink his strategy. The President can no longer afford to dissipate his energies by constantly squabbling with the parliament. A new posture of conciliation was hinted at last week when Kremlin spokesman Vyacheslav Kostikov publicly allowed that parts of the Liberal Democratic and Communist programs "quite correspond to the social aspects of the President's policies -- that is, the social policy of the state, patriotism, making Russia great...