Word: fyodorov
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...return of perestroika, but he won't be getting much encouragement. "Among Gorbachev's top advisers, just about everybody is gone," claims John Mroz, president of the Institute for East-West Security Studies. Many other reform-minded leaders have left the country altogether. The latest departure: Boris Fyodorov, the respected finance minister of the Russian republic, who will take up a job in London later this month at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Most of Gorbachev's policy shapers have been replaced by unknowns from the Central Committee's ideology department. Before their arrival, some of these...
Despite the concession to Yeltsin's demand for faster change, the committee is packed with Gorbachev supporters. Alongside Boris Fyodorov, 32, Yeltsin's finance minister, sit several of the President's closest advisers. Before Sept. 1, when Gorbachev returns from his summer vacation in the Crimea, the committee is to work out a plan for drafting a law to establish a market ecomomy...