Word: gennady
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appointment of Primakov was promoted by Grigori Yavlinsky, a liberal reformer who heads the Yabloko Party. The Foreign Minister's name also appeared on a list of acceptable candidates put forward by Communist Party leader Gennadi Zyuganov, an odd alliance of convenience. Yeltsin chose Primakov partly because he was obviously confirmable and partly because he thought he could count on Primakov's loyalty. But by agreeing to drop Chernomyrdin, the man Yeltsin wanted to succeed him, the President visibly weakened his position and strengthened those of Zyuganov and Yavlinsky. Whether Primakov succeeds or fails, both of his backers intend...
...economic meltdown, the lower house of parliament, or Duma, took the offensive, calling for Yeltsin to resign, demanding a greater share of power and disdainfully offering the President guarantees that he would not be prosecuted or harassed once he left office. More troubling still, the communists, led by Gennadi Zyuganov, prepared to parlay the failure of Russia's cutthroat capitalism into a rollback of the reforms that, for better or worse, have been credited to Yeltsin's account, such as a freely convertible ruble, a tight money supply, even some industrial privatization...
...That's about 1.5 million people. I think about those people, I wonder who they are. But I'll never know. The press hysteria before the election was extraordinary. Ordinary people no longer trusted or respected the moribund Yeltsin, but many were afraid of the communists and Gennadi Zyuganov, so the campaign was carried out under the slogan THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS or BETTER DEAD THAN RED. All my friends either voted for Yeltsin, sighing and chanting the sacred phrases, or, overcome by apathy or revulsion, didn't vote at all. I asked everyone, "Why not vote for Gorbachev...
...would be treated if we had disposed of 40,000 nuclear missiles. And anyway, Gorbachev was a polemical swinger right to the end. The ideological imagination was hardly dead. The following Sunday, no doubt expressing the new Soviet line, chief press spokesman for the Kremlin Gennadi Gerasimov appeared with Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes. It's true, he said, that communism is evolving, but so is Christianity. Christian values and communist values--"especially early Christian values"--are the same...
...almost four years left in Yeltsin's term. That might give the stodgy PM time to develop into a marketable candidate. A second idea floating around parliament would involve scrapping an interim general election and allowing a special assembly to choose a successor. Rivals Chernomyrdin and Communist Party leader Gennadi Zyuganov each believe it could work in his favor. A third proposal, aired by Vyacheslav Kostikov, Yeltsin's former press secretary, would delegate part of the President's powers to a council of several senior advisers until the election...