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President Boris Yeltsin, calling the currency crash "a threat to our national security," fired acting Finance Minister Sergei Dubinin, a critic of easing monetary policy, and asked parliament to dismiss central bank chairman Victor Gerashenko -- who resigned, but only after a personal meeting with Yeltsin. Considered by many an obstacle to reform, Gerashenko had balked at spending scarce hard-currency reserves to prop up the ruble as it went into free fall...
Moscow took quick, drastic steps to ease investors and panic-stricken Russians who dumped their national currency in exchange for durable goods and dollars as the ruble lost a quarter of its value yesterday. President Boris Yeltsin promptly sacked Finance Minister Sergei Dubinin and moved to fire the Central Bank chairman, Viktor Gerashchenko. He made it clear that he suspected foul play, calling the ruble's plunge an act "of sabotage or the manifestation of a policy of extreme irresponsibility and slovenliness by the special groups of people...
None of the above, replied the Soviets. As Yuri Dubinin, former Soviet ambassador to the U.S., once put it, "Gorbachev has only one hobby: perestroika." The visitor from the Kremlin politely declined to go to Kennebunkport at all, or even to stay overnight at Camp David. The most he would agree to was eight hours of informal talks with Bush there Saturday. Still, the leaders and their aides did shed coats and ties in Maryland, and Gorbachev told a few of the salty jokes that Bush enjoys. The President took Gorbachev on a tour in a golf cart, and later...
...cache had been manufactured in the Soviet Union, and the van's driver admitted having run munitions from Nicaragua to El Salvador on numerous occasions during 1989. "We knew about many previous shipments," says Aronson, "but this was a smoking gun." Summoned to the State Department, Soviet Ambassador Yuri Dubinin was presented with a packet of evidence. Shevardnadze's Oct. 30 reply infuriated Baker. The minister rambled on about the contras and dismissed Washington's evidence as providing "no grounds for accusing the Sandinista leadership of violating its commitment to end assistance to rebel movements." To Dubinin, who delivered...
...George-and-Mike basis, but maybe next time, says Bush. Nor, despite the President's easy "just placed the call and his phone rings," is it quite that simple yet. When Bush gets the urge to call, he signals Scowcroft, who goes to Soviet Ambassador Yuri Dubinin, who checks out Gorbachev's availability, which so far has been afternoon Moscow time and morning in Washington. The Kremlin insists on placing the call to the Signal Corps in the White House. An interpreter and a notetaker listen in on extensions in the Situation Room in the White House basement, and Bush...