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...regions much greater control over their economies and foreign trade. In his standard stump speech, he has promised that local factories and other enterprises will be able to trade freely with foreign companies and will have to hand over to the Russian government only 25% of their profits. Mikhail Gorbachev's power-sharing program, which is still in the planning stage, will call for factories to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barnstorming With Boris | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

After dismantling most of the Soviet empire around the world, Gorbachev is reluctant to offer ammunition to his hard-line opponents at home by cutting ties to Cuba. With its listening post in Lourdes, the island continues to offer some strategic value to Moscow, though satellites and the end of the East-West cold war have diminished its importance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: Moscow's Cheap Date | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

...candidates, in fact, could have learned a lesson or two from the old pro, Mikhail Gorbachev. Even though he is not running for anything, the Soviet President managed to capture the limelight during a visit to Kazakhstan last week, where he donned a sporty cap to pose for cameras in a wheat field. Though Gorbachev has made fresh peace with Yeltsin, he has refused to endorse any candidate in the race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Kissing Hands, Shaking Babies | 6/10/1991 | See Source »

...race has a dark horse: Bakatin, the former Interior Minister and now member of Gorbachev's Security Council. If Yeltsin has the support of radical reformers and Ryzhkov the backing of hard-line generals and party hacks, Bakatin insists that he is an "independent" candidate. Speculation that he is really the Kremlin's man has been so intense, however, that Bakatin felt compelled to note last week that "I've said no to Gorbachev many times." Bakatin shrewdly chose as his running mate Ramazan Abdulatipov, an ethnic Muslim who is chairman of the Russian parliament's Council of Nationalities. Opposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Kissing Hands, Shaking Babies | 6/10/1991 | See Source »

...election has already sparked spirited exchanges on the streets. In Moscow last week, a young man got into a verbal brawl after he asserted that Yeltsin had been "dishonest" because he had backed down in public on private deals he had made with Gorbachev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Kissing Hands, Shaking Babies | 6/10/1991 | See Source »

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