Word: dimitry
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...Dimitri Simes. Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace...
...needs to show how he would translate that public support into a concrete way of putting reforms into action, or even unseating Gorbachev. As the economy worsens, says Dimitri Simes, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Yeltsin must do more than agitate to throw the bums out. "While people still like him, will still vote for him," says Simes, "they're losing confidence that he can make a difference." But Michael Mandelbaum, a Soviet expert at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, maintains that though Yeltsin's reform ideas may not be detailed...
Gromov's appointment was widely viewed as a means of giving the army influence in the Interior Ministry. Under Gorbachev, the once celebrated army has become the target of radical nationalists in outlying republics and the whipping boy of a newly sensational and aggressive press. Defense Minister Dimitri Yazov has denounced the spate of attacks on soldiers, and grimly declared that servicemen were authorized to open fire in self-defense. Said Yazov: "The army will not allow anyone to mock...
...Vladimir Lopatin, a young Deputy and major in the naval forces, has taken up the cause. He has drafted a challenging 15-page reform plan calling for a phased transition to a professional army while permitting the republics to set up their own corps in the interim. Defense Minister Dimitri Yazov has categorically rejected these proposals, arguing that a smaller all-volunteer army would be too expensive and too risky in a country with more then 37,000 miles of borders to defend. But Lopatin has already begun to attract followers. The young officer's feisty attacks in parliament...
...urgings to take the position of Executive President until he concluded that it was what the country needed. Because -- or in spite -- of his year as an exchange student at Columbia University in 1959, Yakovlev dislikes and distrusts the U.S. and considers it dominated by right-wing thinking. Sovietologist Dimitri Simes says he is "unusually intellectually curious, a person with imagination, with vision...