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Russian View on Trump and Brexit, part 3

The offers I couldn’t refuse

In 1988, I was invited to the Communist Party Committee of the “Novosti” Press Agency (APN), where I was told, that “there is a decision” to give me recommendation to the postgraduate studies in the Academy of Social Sciences of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

–         What is your decision? – the Secretary of the Committee asked me.

–         Thank you. I agree.

–         Fine. Please, inform the Chief Editor of your Department.

When I entered the room of Nikolay Fedin, the Chief Editor of the Asian Department of APN and told him about the offer I had just received, he was surprised.

–         What did you tell them? – he asked me.

–         I agreed.

–         Are you crazy? You will lose three years.  What they can teach you there?!
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