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Then the following day brought another crisis. On orders from Korzhakov, officers of the presidential security service arrested two Yeltsin campaign workers coming out of the White House, the Russian government headquarters in central Moscow. The two were Sergei Lisovsky, who is an advertising executive, and Arkadi Yevstafyev, an aide to campaign manager Anatoli Chubais. Korzhakov claimed that the two were trying to remove a box full of foreign currency without proper authorization, a charge Lisovsky denies. They were held overnight for questioning but were released, with a warning to keep their mouths shut, after news of their detention...
...figure is mentioned more often as the man with whom Yeltsin must compromise than Arkadi Volsky. He is not the most extreme opponent, but he is the most powerful. A former Communist Party apparatchik and adviser to each of the past three Soviet leaders, Volsky, 60, has the assured air of a man who has walked the corridors of the Kremlin many times. Holding only a nominal party office at the time of the August 1991 coup, he escaped the guilt by association that taints other former high party officials. Many observers now consider him a future Prime Minister...
...attempt to move from a centrally controlled to a market economy has been in motion for years but still remains in limbo. To push the economy ahead while the government is being repaired, Gorbachev last week appointed an executive panel. Its members include Russian Prime Minister Ivan Silayev; Arkadi Volsky, who has been pushing for conversion of defense plants to civilian production; and Grigori Yavlinsky, an economist best known for helping draft the so-called 500-Day Plan for radical reform...
...more sanguine. While no American has stayed in space for more than three months, the Soviets have repeatedly staged manned flights of longer duration, capped by the 326-day stay of Cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko last year aboard the orbiting space station Mir. "The experience of that flight," says Dr. Arkadi Ushakov of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, "testifies that we should be optimistic about long-duration space flight. Our knowledge in the field of weightlessness is growing, and we are learning what countermeasures need to be taken to ensure health and safety...
...hours later Moscow announced that it had received good news about its own brush with the vagaries of Middle Eastern terror. Three Soviet diplomats kidnaped in Beirut on Sept. 30 had been released in that city, 28 days after the body of a fourth Soviet kidnap victim, Consular Secretary Arkadi Katkov, was found with a bullet through the head. The P.L.O. had nothing to do with the Soviet kidnapings, for which the hitherto unknown Islamic Liberation Organization claimed responsibility...