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Faced with a mushrooming crisis, Yeltsin last week called for a new effort to stem crime. Turning to the well-tested tactic of seeking a scapegoat, he fired Moscow police chief Vladimir Pankratov and city chief prosecutor Gennadi Ponomaryov for failing to "provide proper organization" to deal with "grave crimes." He chaired a meeting of the Security Council, which issued a stern warning: the continued activities of organized crime were "discrediting state powers" and "threatening the security of Russia...
Most Russians were not buying Mavrodi's antigovernment argument: even such opponents of President Boris Yeltsin as Communist Party leader Gennadi Zugyanov and aspiring presidential candidate Alexander Rutskoi remained silent about the debacle and the government's role. The MMM fiasco has already prodded the government into more energetic regulation of the country's unfettered capital markets, but how effective it will be is anyone's guess. The Cabinet announced it would direct the Finance Ministry to move toward establishing regulatory procedures, but that responsibility is shared with the central bank and the State Property Committee. It is far from...
Kozyrev: Talk with ((Vladimir)) Zhirinovsky and with ((Communist Party leader Gennadi)) Zyuganov. Zyuganov drew a parallel between the Partnership for Peace and Hitler's Barbarossa plan for invading Russia! That is their mentality. The alternative is clear. Their scenario is Yugoslavia: use force to crack down on republics and re-establish the empire or whatever you chose to call...
...Serb friends could be persuaded to put up a mini-bakery or mini-dry-cleaning service in Shchelkovo. "What you need are little things which are of immediate use to the people," he explained. "A mini-bakery would bake excellent bread." He turned to his chief of staff, Gennadi Kazantsev, and said, "Put it all down...
...around dawn). A presidential study has concluded that virtually every retail trade booth, store, cafe and restaurant in the Russian capital pays protection money of up to 20% of gross receipts to organized crime. Resisters are beaten or killed. "In my 17 years on patrol," says police Lieut. Gennadi Groshikov, "I have never seen so much crime in Moscow; nor have I seen anything as vicious...