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The turning point in Chernenko’s career was his assignment in 1948 to head the Communist Party’s propaganda department in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic. There, he met and won the ...
The High Anti-Corruption Court has approved an agreement on acknowledgment of the guilt between prosecutors and former member of the Ukrainian Parliament of Petro Poroshenko Bloc, Oleksandr Chernenko, ...
But there was an Internet (sort of!), and there were gullible, stupid people who spent time on it. The Chernenko note fits some of the modern hoax criteria. It originated in a foreign country.
Chernenko made no move to stop the minor economic reforms set in motion by his predecessor, but were they not given much attention. A harsh drive against corruption, however, came to a halt.
The heart of the trouble lies with Chernenko himself, chosen Feb. 13, 1984, as a compromise choice after President Yuri Andropov had died of kidney failure after just 15 months in office.
French officials believe that Russia’s new leader, Konstantin Chemenko, will exert a restraining influence on Syria and urge President Hafez Assad to avoid any possibility of a confrontation ...
Konstantin Chernenko, 73, the Soviet Union`s sixth Communist Party leader since the overthrow of the czar in 1917; he was Leonid Brezhnev`s propaganda chief in the 1950s and headed the party`s ...
A frail-looking President Konstantin Chernenko made his first public appearance in nearly two months on Sunday.Soviet television news carried a brief film clip of the 73-year-old leader and said ...
Soviet President Konstantin U. Chernenko, missing from public sight for more than eight weeks, was too sick to deliver a key election address today and a Politburo member read the Soviet leader ...
President Konstantin Chernenko, who has not appeared in public since late December, spoke at this week`s regular meeting of the Communist Party Politburo, Soviet television said Thursday night.The ...