Word: genna
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Belarus. A man infamous for his extravagant p romises, Yeltsin wisely made few in a sober and sobering 24-minute address. One, to pay all pensions owed by June 3, actually drew some smiles from Duma members. Other skepticism was not so thinly disguised. Afterward, Communist Party leader Genna dy Zyuganov called the performance "miserable, helpless, buffoonery without any real content behind it. I would like to hear why there is no economic growth. And why pensions, social payments and wages are not being paid." Yeltsin's speech, though, demonstrated a full grasp of the why. The evident difficulty will...
...Mymrino, the tiny village in Russia's Black Earth region where Zyuganov was born, memories burn brightly of the young, towheaded ''Genna" leading student brigades to pick potatoes at the nearby Red October collective farm...