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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wife, two children. Two girls, 13 and 14 years old." Curtness, colleagues say, masks his real nature. He's a tough guy, they say, but an enlightened, modern one. Still, in addition to a fondness for wrestling and judo, he professes admiration for the iron discipline of Yuri Andropov, the former KGB boss who ruled the U.S.S.R. in the early 1980s. On the 85th anniversary of Andropov's birth in June, Putin laid flowers on his grave at the Kremlin wall and cited Andropov's enduring popularity as proof "there's a demand for people like Andropov--honest, decent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's Puppet Master | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

JANUARY 1984: The Kremlin says Yuri Andropov, absent from public view for more than 120 days, is feeling better after suffering from "a cold." One month later, he dies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Dec. 7, 1998 | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...Yuri Andropov had only one year to make his imprint on Soviet policy before his kidneys failed him at age 69. But what if a timely transplant had allowed him to live the life span of Deng Xiaoping? Andropov was keenly aware of weaknesses in the Soviet system but had none of Gorbachev's moral compunctions about imprisoning or killing enemies. He almost certainly would have moved more aggressively to free the economy but more cautiously on social liberalizations--perestroika without glasnost. Following China's "Dengian policies," he might well have saved the Soviet Union--and extended the cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What If King Had Lived? And Other Historical Might- Have-Beens | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

REAGAN AND ANDROPOV 1983 Unnerving the world with nuclear calculations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUTTING A FACE ON HISTORY | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

Boris Yeltsin just has a cold, says the Kremlin. (Colds are dangerous in Russia. Leonid Brezhnev had a "cold" and it turned out he was gravely ill, addicted to sedatives and barely functional; Konstantin Chernenko had a "cold" and vanished behind Kremlin walls; Yuri Andropov had a "cold" and was dead in weeks.) Well, maybe flu. (Last time Yeltsin admitted to "flu" it was really pneumonia, and he was out of action for two months.) But there's no cause for alarm, officials claimed last week: the President will keep working while he is resting for 10 or 12 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PERILS OF CATCHING COLD | 12/22/1997 | See Source »

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