Viktor Sukhrodev Passed Away

Soviet interpreter Viktor Sukhodrev, center, with Leonid Brezhnev and Richard Nixon
at a Washington summit in June 1973
image: Bob Burchette/The Washington Post
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Viktor Sukhodrev, a polished interpreter who was at the side of every Soviet leader for three decades as the English-language voice of the Kremlin and who was often the third person in the room during high-level summit meetings throughout the Cold War, died May 16 in Moscow. He was 81.

Read the full article in Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/viktor-sukhodrev-polished-interpreter-for-soviet-leaders-dies-at-81/2014/05/17/674731d8-dde8-11e3-b745-87d39690c5c0_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines

And here you can read the obituary from NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/20/world/europe/viktor-m-sukhodrev-soviet-leaders-trusted-interpreter-dies-at-81.html

Viktor Sukhodrev between Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev
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(NY Times)
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(Zoon Politikon)