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Word: avaliani (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1989-1989
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...calls for greater local autonomy in managing the economy, bureaucrats in Moscow continued to wield arbitrary control over the mines and were holding back the bulk of their profits. Many local officials openly sympathized with the strikers. "Why not? They breathe the same air we do," said Timuras Avaliani, 57, of the Kuzbass regional strike committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Revolution Down Below | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

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