Word: gavril
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...move prices down a bit," Strauss says, noting that most food stores today are still state owned. He has enlisted the support of Georgi Matyukhin, head of the central bank, is in touch with a potential supplier of Russian-made sausage and is trying to persuade Moscow's mayor, Gavril Popov, to lend his weight to the plan...
...alliance that, combined with massive and timely Western aid, would stop the economic disintegration. And Russians have what German democrats in the Weimar period woefully lacked: forceful, popular leaders like Yeltsin -- who on the whole has been more democrat than autocrat -- St. Petersburg Mayor Anatoli Sobchak and Moscow Mayor Gavril Popov. Authoritarians as yet have no leader with any comparable clout. But a lawyer named Vladimir Zhirinovsky did run third in last June's Russian presidential election despite -- or because of -- his wild ideas (he now speaks of solving food shortages by invading the former East Germany with an army...
...referring to his law-school classmate. Gorbachev obviously did not believe Lukyanov -- he refused even to acknowledge his old comrade when they passed in a corridor -- and others have fingered Lukyanov as the ideological mastermind of the plot. So many other suspected conspirators are being investigated that Moscow Mayor Gavril Popov felt obliged to issue a public appeal: no citizen should denounce another as a coup supporter in order to settle a private score or to get rid of a boss whose job the informer wants. Such denunciations were among the most infamous features of Stalin's purges...
...together a Democratic Reform Movement, intended to become a unified and permanent opposition to the Communist Party, or at least its hard-line faction. Organizers include former Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze; Alexander Yakovlev, an adviser to President Mikhail Gorbachev who is sometimes called the "architect of perestroika"; and Mayors Gavril Popov of Moscow and Anatoli Sobchak of Leningrad...
...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 rallies Oct. 6 and 7, at which they would stage violent incidents that would serve as a pretext for a coup...