Word: valentine
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...years to untangle. The main mystery is where the party stashed its fortune, estimated to be as much as $176 billion. Two official inquiries are under way -- one by the Russian parliament, which is probing party involvement in the Aug. 19 putsch, and another by Russia's prosecutor general, Valentin Stepankov. So far, little light has been shed on the whereabouts of the vanished loot. But the source appears indisputable: the Soviet treasury. "The party did not see any difference between its budget and that of the state," says Nikolai Fedorov, justice minister of the Russian Federation. "Tens of millions...
...later, his predecessor, Georgi Pavlov, fell to his death the same way. And two weeks ago, Dmitri Lisovolik, former deputy chief of the party's international department, also leaped out a window several weeks after investigators found $600,000 in U.S. dollars in the office of Lisovolik's boss, Valentin Falin, at Central Committee headquarters...
...What you are trying to do with your committee is anticonstitutional and unlawful. This is adventurism that will result in bloodshed and civil war.' The general started trying to prove to me that they would see to it that such a thing wouldn't happen. I told him, 'Look, Valentin Ivanovich, society is no army battalion, and you can't put it in ranks and files. Your plan will turn into a terrible tragedy. I have thought about your idea too -- the one with the state of emergency. I have thought it out, and I am convinced that...
Former Vice President Gennadi Yanayev and then Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov were deep into the toasts at a party at Pavlov's dacha when they were suddenly summoned to the Kremlin to take part in the coup. Pavlov, who turned up semi-coherent at one meeting of the plotters, was eventually hospitalized for "hypertension," sometimes a euphemism for imbibing too much distilled potato spirit. After the putsch fizzled, Yanayev was found unconscious on his office floor among empty vodka bottles. Said Kuranty, a radical daily: "We could have had a government by drunks...
...balcony on the seventh floor of -- appropriately -- a luxury Moscow apartment building set aside for top party officials. As the Central Committee's general affairs officer, Kruchina had been in charge of the party's billions and would have known of irregularities, if not actually been involved in them. Valentin Stepankov, chief prosecutor of the Russian Federation, said officials interviewed Kruchina about party financial affairs shortly before his death. "He seemed to have reason to be nervous," said Stepankov...