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...counterparts. There really is a Chinese people; 94% belong to one ethnic group, Han Chinese. By contrast, Russians make up only 51% of the population of the U.S.S.R.; they are one of more than 100 ethnic groups. Those non- Russian nationalities -- in the Caucasus, in Central Asia, along the Baltic, in the Ukraine -- are already straining at the ties that bind them to Moscow...
...their bids to be seated in the Supreme Soviet. The rebuffed reformers included Boris Yeltsin, the former Moscow party chief who resigned his post in the Construction Ministry earlier in the week, partly in anticipation of being elected to the Supreme Soviet. Only in delegations from Moscow and the Baltic region, a seedbed of reform, did a handful of reformers gain election to the permanent legislature. The results were a severe blow to advocates of change, who seldom attracted more than a third of the body's delegates in major votes...
...second round of elections at the Soviet Union's Academy of Sciences. After weeks of debate, academy members finally voted Nobel Peace laureate Andrei Sakharov one of their 20 seats in the congress. Independent deputies and supporters of such unofficial groups as the popular front movements in the Baltic States have already gathered in Moscow to discuss forming a loose parliamentary bloc called the March Coalition. The group could attract as many as 10% of the members of the new Congress of People's Deputies, presenting Gorbachev with something akin to an organized opposition...
...Soviet leadership closed Tbilisi to foreign journalists, but it could not hide from the truth: the thorny problem of nationalism had erupted in violence yet again in one of Mikhail Gorbachev's non-Russian republics. From the Baltic republics to earthquake-devastated Armenia, greater independence from Moscow has become a rallying cry. The latest troubles began last month, when a minority group known as the Abkhazians, who live in an autonomous enclave in the western part of Georgia, demanded full independence. Georgians, who account for 48% of the population in Abkhazia where Abkhazians are a mere 17%, staged counterprotests, which...
...publish everything that we can vouch for, which is how it should be. That is how Ogonyok's stories on the crimes of Stalin and modern corruption originated. That is how we examine such things as the decline of the Bolshoi Ballet, the rise of nonparty organizations in the Baltic republics, the problems of the poor and attempts to use anti-Semitism to restore a dictatorship of fear...