Word: politburo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kremlin has also been reticent because the donation draws attention to the fact that he is funding programs the government has neglected. Russian leaders are nervous because Soros "is an idealist" who also happens to have billions of dollars, says Alexander Yakovlev, who served in Mikhail Gorbachev's Politburo. "He knows what Russian society is like, and that is why he is trying to change...
...President proposed a radical privatization of many of the country's deficit-ridden state-owned enterprises, his first attempt at visionary change and one that runs a high risk of widespread social unrest. At the end of the Party Congress, Jiang announced the election of a new Politburo, China's top policymaking body, and that China's armed forces would be shrunk...
This story is not about the Politburo in Beijing or even the thousands of dissidents locked away in jails. It is a tale of ordinary people in three regions, no more but also no less representative of the "real" China. While communism and democracy form the two poles of the country's political drama, most Chinese live their lives somewhere in between, feeling their way cautiously forward. Politics remains hard for people to discuss, not just because they are afraid to but because that is not primarily where their interests lie. Many do not yet have a vocabulary that extends...
...international trade and education. He is a friend of Jiang's and has a reputation as a liberal. But, says a Chinese banker, "unlike some orthodox leaders, he doesn't carry any political baggage." And coming up on the outside is Hu Jintao, 55, the golden boy of the Politburo's inner circle. Also an engineer, Hu is in charge of the party's key organizational department and the promotion of younger members...
...title Deng held was honorary chairman of the Chinese Bridge Association (he had refused all high posts since his 1977 comeback, and in 1989 gave up the critical job as head of the Central Military Commission). Still, Premier Zhao Ziyang admitted to the visiting Mikhail Gorbachev that all major Politburo decisions had to be approved by Deng...