While Diplomats Speak (на англ.яз.)

The book While Diplomats Speak paints a broad picture of the last fifty years of a great country with today's world in the background._x000D_ The author grew up in the Soviet backwaters. Without any connections or sponsors and overcoming traps set by secret services, he became a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a specialist on Third World economies. He worked hard in many of those economies, including Chile, Mexico, Kenya, Cameroun, India, Nepal and Thailand. At one time he was a deputy Soviet foreign minister._x000D_ Obminski wrote much on world economic problems and also three books of satirical verse and prose._x000D_ The author reminisces about, among others, historical figures he knew personally, including members of the all-powerful Soviet Politbureau and architects of Perestroika, and lays bare the secret springs of well-known events. The chapters "Foreign Ministry Headquarters", "United Nations Corridors" and "Heading for Collapse" reveal the underside of... _x000D_ The book While Diplomats Speak paints a broad picture of the last fifty years of a great country with today's world in the background._x000D_ The author grew up in the Soviet backwaters. Without any connections or sponsors and overcoming traps set by secret services, he became a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a specialist on Third World economies. He worked hard in many of those economies, including Chile, Mexico, Kenya, Cameroun, India, Nepal and Thailand. At one time he was a deputy Soviet foreign minister._x000D_ Obminski wrote much on world economic problems and also three books of satirical verse and prose._x000D_ The author reminisces about, among others, historical figures he knew personally, including members of the all-powerful Soviet Politbureau and architects of Perestroika, and lays bare the secret springs of well-known events. The chapters "Foreign Ministry Headquarters", "United Nations Corridors" and "Heading for Collapse" reveal the underside of top-level decision-making that shaped the fate of the country._x000D_ Издание на английском языке.