Word: gerashchenko
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...VICTOR GERASHCHENKO...
...President, Alexander Rutskoi, to form Civic Union, which is probably the best- organized political faction in the country. Yeltsin, zigzagging between conservatives and reformers in the same manner he denounced when Gorbachev was doing it, has named conservatives to three of Russia's eight deputy premierships, and installed Viktor Gerashchenko, who once ran the Soviet Gosbank, as head of the new Russian central bank...
...resulting mass unemployment would simply be too great, and that argument seems to be converting some reformers. Says Sergei Stankevich, a Yeltsin adviser: "The orthodox liberal idea of letting the majority of enterprises go bankrupt and then, after we have millions of unemployed, retrain, reorganize, sell is absolute nonsense." Gerashchenko announced last month that he intends to extend loans to the wheezing dinosaurs, enabling them to pay off vast debts, and to raise part of the money by printing 350 billion to 400 billion new rubles...
...save us from the nationalism of the Great People!" cried Genrikh Igityan, an Armenian Deputy, during one Supreme Soviet debate. Apparently realizing that he had overreached himself, Yeltsin late last week rescinded some decrees, including one asserting Russian control of state banks. That only added to the confusion: Viktor Gerashchenko, head of the Soviet central bank, Gosbank, was replaced one morning by Andrei Zverev, a deputy Russian finance minister, only to be reinstated before...
...have been investing finances in shareholding companies, joint ventures, commercial banks and other commercial structures of various kinds," according to an announcement by the Soviet State bank, which last week froze all party funds. The bank itself may have been involved. The Russian Information Agency reported that chairman Victor Gerashchenko, who originally was fired last week for supporting the coup but then was reinstated, asked a U.S.-based firm to convert 500 million party rubles into dollars. The company refused...