Word: luzhkov
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shinkaretsky, who works for state-run Gosteleradio, has no private office, no producer, no staff. His only status symbol: a beeper that he carries in his shirt pocket. When it flashes the number 6, he knows to call Yuri Luzhkov, Moscow's deputy mayor and the official in charge of the city food supply. "We're in cahoots," Shinkaretsky says, and winks...
...predictable functioning of the capitalist law of supply and demand. Soviet salaries have risen an average of roughly 8% over the past three years. Meanwhile, production of big-ticket consumer items like refrigerators and automobiles has been increasing at a much lower rate. As a result, says Yuri Luzhkov, chairman of the state committee responsible for Moscow's food supply, "people are investing their new money in food" -- and, in the process, creating the current spate of product shortages. Jan Vanous, research director of PlanEcon, a Washington-based think tank, agrees that Soviet supply and demand has gone seriously...
...freight handlers or other workers. Soviet officials issued a denial but in the process inadvertently indicted the whole system of transporting goods. The stockpiles, they said, were the result not of deliberate disruption but of poor management and lack of delivery trucks. "I know this problem well," said Luzhkov, growing red in the face when asked about the Pravda story. "There isn't the slightest smell of sabotage. It's the usual disorganization...