Word: bogomolov
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...Others believe the problem lies in the upbringing of children born after the fall of the Soviet Union. "Students today are more interested in money and dancing," says Yuri Bogomolov, 79, a former scientist at a Soviet-era aerospace lab. "We have a lot of patriotism, but the U.S. has a lot of money [to put into its space program]," he adds as he watches a clip from White Sun of the Desert, a Soviet action-adventure film that cosmonauts traditionally - and superstitiously - watch before blasting off, ever since Gagarin watched it and returned alive from his first space flight...
...Oleg Bogomolov, director of Moscow's Institute of International Economic and Political Research, speculates that Gorbachev then took a new look at the central bureaucracy. Bogomolov says, "Gorbachev probably recognized that the old system still showed signs of life, that it could be preserved and - reformed." In other words, it was a strategic retreat into a renewed alliance with the party, the military and the economic masters of the country...
...Prime Minister has four First Deputies; all of them have links with the military-industrial complex. When Gorbachev's economic advisers Shatalin and Petrakov resigned after the military crackdown in the Baltics in January, he replaced them with two apparatchiks from the staff of the party Central Committee. Says Bogomolov: "Gorbachev is less the President nowadays than the Communist Party General Secretary, carrying out the decisions of the Politburo and the party plenum...