Word: bakatin
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...member of the Presidential Council as well as a minister, Bakatin, 53, is the country's chief policeman. Though he was trained as a civil engineer, he is in charge of combatting crime, corruption and ethnic violence, all of which he handles well enough to earn praise from conservatives and liberals alike. He is businesslike but personable, articulate, impressive on television. Conservative Supreme Soviet Deputies offered to nominate him for President in the election last March. He declined, but next time he might not, especially if Gorbachev is not a candidate then...
...Soviet Minister of the Interior, Vadim Bakatin, told a press conference in Baku that Azerbaijan's own police force suffered only a "temporary" loss of control when mobs broke into Armenian homes and killed dozens of people. He suggested that the Front confer with the police on restoring order. "There are," said Bakatin, "undoubtedly healthy forces within the Popular Front with whom the police must actively cooperate." But Bakatin obviously had a different opinion of the police than his ministerial colleague at Defense did: Yazov publicly accused the police of supplying guns to the Front...