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Four years with gromyko / Zaitsev, A

Zaitsev, A	Journal Article
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2009.

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MY APPOINTMENT TO THE SECRETARIAT of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs in early July of 1979 came shortly before the 70th birthday of Andrei Andreevich Gromyko at the peak of his popularity and influence as one of three CPSU Central Committee Politburo members whose word, at that period, was decisive in laying down the home and foreign policy of the country with a universally recognized great power status. Before taking up my new duties I had, as was the rule, to learn, from inside and in a brief span of time, about the workings of the Secretariat beginning with the duties of a night duty officer. I will never forget the few anxious nights I spent on my own in the deserted and securely locked up portion of the building outside the open door to the minister's office (to hear if any of the hotline telephones installed inside and nowhere else should ring, * in permanent readiness to respond to any, often unexpected calls coming to the impressive battery of phones of the government communication line at the side table of the minister's senior aide.

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Four Years ; Gromyko

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ID: 101881

Remembering Reykjavik / Zaitsev, A

Zaitsev, A	Journal Article
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Publication	2010.
Summary/Abstract	THE PROPOSAL of an assignment to Iceland made to me over the phone when I was on vacation by the chief of the Foreign Ministry Personnel Department who gave me two days to think about it, for the umpteenth time confirmed the correctness of my idea formed over more than 30 years of diplomatic service of the unpredictability of the chosen career.

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Russia ; Arctic Ocean ; Iceland ; Reykjavik

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Russia and Iceland: strengthening ties in keeping with tradition / Zaitsev, A

Zaitsev, A	Journal Article
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Russia and Iceland: Strengthening Ties in Keeping With Tradition (Toward the 75th Anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations)

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Republic of Iceland ; 75th anniversary of Establishment of Diplomatic Relations Russian and Icelandic Archives

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