Word: gennady
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would be foolhardy for the West to turn its back on Russia just because the ideological conflicts of the cold war are over. The burden that Yeltsin must carry is too heavy for one man. If he should falter, the consequences will reverberate around the world. Russia, says Gennadi Burbulis, Yeltsin's chief political strategist, has become "the prism through which a universal longing for global change has been focused...
With the cold war allegedly over, U.S. Olympic officials tried to be magnanimous, all the while pointing out that the Unified Team, led by their forceful trainer Gennadi Turetsky, had profited handsomely from a wealth of new data published by American sports institutions. "Our team is doing as well as expected," said the U.S. head coach, Dennis Pursley. "But the days when one nation can dominate the world of swimming are past." Still, with 11 of 31 gold medals, the U.S. firmly outdistanced its closest competitors. The Unified Team captured six, Hungary five and China four. The conspicuous loser...
...most Thursdays, President (and Prime Minister) Yeltsin takes his place at the head of the table. The chair on his left is reserved for Vice President Alexander Rutskoi. Gennadi Burbulis, Yeltsin's top political strategist, and First Deputy Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, the point man of Russia's economic reforms, sit on the right. The old Politburo table had to be lengthened to seat the 35 ministers in the government and 30 state-committee chairmen. Most of Yeltsin's staff must scramble for chairs along the walls...
...planned and halfheartedly carried out: had the plotters acted with half the acumen and ruthlessness of the routine Latin general or African strongman seizing power, they might have succeeded. But some appeared to be more terrified than any of their prospective victims. Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov and Vice President Gennadi Yanayev, the ostensible head (really figurehead) of the so-called Emergency Committee, reportedly spent most of the three days of the coup dead drunk. Though Yanayev pulled himself together long enough to hold a press conference the first night of the coup, he and some other members of the committee...
...Kravchuk to join the discussions at the forest dacha. According to their aides, the three initially tried to revive a Gorbachev idea to form a fairly loose Union of Sovereign States that would still have a central government of sorts. But all day Saturday, says Russian Deputy Prime Minister Gennadi Burbulis, they kept hitting "a dead end." Finally the leaders instructed their foreign ministers to start over from scratch and draft something new. Working separately through the night, the ministers produced three texts that proved to be so similar that the leaders had no trouble next morning melding them into...