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...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...
...influences no one could have imagined under the old ways. Even a year ago, an analysis of the policy debate in Moscow would have focused almost exclusively on party leaders, the well-known Gorbachev allies like Politburo member Eduard Shevardnadze and equally prominent opponents like Politburo member Yegor Ligachev and former Moscow party chief Boris Yeltsin. Today new approaches and fledgling political parties are emerging across the spectrum, from Gorbachev's left to his far right, reshaping Soviet politics. Some of the most influential advocates of the new approaches...
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...
...week, Vlasov withdrew his candidacy after a verbal drubbing from speakers at the Russian Congress of People's Deputies. The only serious remaining rival to Yeltsin was Ivan Polozkov, the conservative party boss from Krasnodar who has made no secret of his support for another Gorbachev rival, Yegor Ligachev...
...arresting family members of suspected bribe takers. But the legislators stopped short of lifting their parliamentary immunity so that prosecutors could press charges against them. Noted former dissident Roy Medvedev, who headed a Supreme Soviet inquiry into the affair: "One thing is clear -- they have no evidence that Ligachev took bribes." The crowd outside the Kremlin, however, continued to call for Ligachev's resignation...