Zinoviev

American  

[zi-noh-vee-ef, -nov-yef, zyi-naw-vyif] / zɪˈnoʊ viˌɛf, -ˈnɒv yɛf, zyɪˈnɔ vyɪf /

noun

1. Grigori Evseevich 1883–1936, Russian Bolshevik leader.

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Zinoviev British  

/ ziˈnɔvjɪf, zɪˈnəʊvɪəf /

noun

1. Grigori Yevseevich, original name Ovsel Gershon Aronov Radomyslsky. 1883–1936, Soviet politician; chairman of the Comintern (1919–26) executed for supposed complicity in the murder of Kirov. He was the supposed author of the forged `Zinoviev letter' urging British Communists to revolt, publication of which helped to defeat (1924) the first Labour Government

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Example Sentences

In a meeting with the ambassador Georgiy Zinoviev, South Korea's vice-foreign minister Kim Hong-kyun denounced the move and warned that Seoul will "respond with all measures available".

From BBC

Mr Zinoviev said he would relay the concerns, but stressed that the cooperation between Moscow and Pyongyang is "within the framework of international law".

From BBC

For the work-release program, Epstein traveled not with the sheriff’s deputies assigned to him but with a personal driver, a former mixed-martial-arts fighter from Russia named Igor Zinoviev.

From Washington Post

He ordered the Admiralty to stop roughing up U-boat prisoners, saw that the Zinoviev Letter smearing Labour was a forgery, and stopped the government penalising workers who came out in the general strike.

From The Guardian

In 1924, four days before a general election, the Daily Mail published the forged Zinoviev letter, a supposed directive from Moscow to British communists to mobilise “sympathetic forces” in the Labour party; Labour lost the election by a landslide.

From The Guardian