Word: yegor
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...Democracy faction split with party hard-liners and backed Yeltsin's campaign for Russia's top post. Yeltsin rewarded him with the second spot, but since last fall Rutskoi has turned on his boss with a very public campaign against the economic reform plan of Deputy Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar. Though a proponent of reform in principle, Rutskoi recently described Gaidar's program of freeing prices before privatizing state property as "economic genocide of the Russian people...
...faster and more completely than anyone could have dreamed. One of the more endearing manifestations of revolutionary improvisation occurred on Wednesday night, when television viewers turned on their sets expecting to watch the official news show Vremya (Time). Instead they first saw a taped session in the office of Yegor Yakovlev, a reformist newspaper editor who had just been named head of state radio and television. Yakovlev had invited in several newscasters who had been barred from the airwaves by his predecessor, the hard-line Leonid Kravchenko, and asked them to put together a new evening news program, with almost...
Boris Yeltsin has an exquisite sense of timing. Just when Mikhail Gorbachev had soundly defeated hard-line rival Yegor Ligachev and secured his control over the divided Communist Party, Yeltsin threw down an even greater challenge. He quit the party, threatening to wrest the embattled reform movement from Gorbachev's hands and turn the party into a sideshow...
...with insolent rhythmic clapping. When chief economist Leonid Abalkin warned delegates that the socialist idea had begun to lose its popular appeal and the only way to save it was to switch to a market economy, he was greeted with derision. The warmest ovation was saved for conservative hero Yegor Ligachev, who fired up the audience with an attack on "thoughtless radicalism...
Sobchak, 53, was elected Mayor of Leningrad in May after reformers there mounted a draft. An expert on economic legislation, he is an influential member of the Supreme Soviet, where he has clashed bitterly with Prime Minister Ryzhkov. Yegor Ligachev is also one of his targets. Sobchak said of him last week that "yesterday his word was law; today it is nonsense." Sobchak belongs to the Interregional Group and is considered a radical, but a measured one. He argues that KGB leaders should be barred from political leadership and, perhaps tongue in cheek, that the party might have...