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...spite of all this self-justification, Gorbachev denied that he gave the order to shoot. "I learned about what happened when they woke me up the next morning," he said. Interior Minister Boris Pugo and Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov shirked responsibility as well. The decision was made, said Yazov, by the army commander in Vilnius, whose assignment was to protect "all members of society...
Tass quoted a Soviet Army deputy chief of staff, Col. Gen. Grigory Krivosheyev, as saying an agreement was struck between Defense Minister Dmitri T. Yazov and Estonian Prime Minister Edgar Savisaar on military service for Estonian men. Tass said the accord will allow some Estonian draftees to serve in Estonia...
Tchaikovsky and Verdi Arias, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone; Valery Gergiev conducting the Rotterdam Philharmonic (Philips). Hvorostovsky, 28, has a voice that is big, rich and -- most important -- silky smooth. There hasn't been a baritone with this force and allure since the young Hermann Prey...
Unlike the more glamourous natural and social sciences, the humanities usually receive the lowest funding priority and are "underfunded by all agencies," according to Professor Dmitri Gutas, director of graduate studies in Near Eastern languages and civilizations, one of the departments benefitting from the grants...
...newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda the next day achieved a bizarre fusion of conservative-radical coup rumors; it said ; military forces had been put on alert in early September to thwart a planned takeover by radicals who had organized armed assault groups. "The facts in this article were invented," Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov protested in Parliament. "No one is is preparing paratroopers for actions against the people." But even that did not kill the conspiracy talk. Moscow Mayor Gavril Popov and members of the Russian Federation government charged that Communist Party provocateurs and military hard-liners were trying to organize phony reformist...