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...started, Western estimates put Soviet gold reserves at 2,500 to 3,500 tons. In January 1990, said former Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov last week, the country had 784 tons. After the August coup failed, Russian officials announced ominously that "a certain amount of gold is missing." In September, Grigori Yavlinsky, Gorbachev's top economic adviser, claimed that two-thirds of the gold reserves had been sold abroad in 1990, leaving only 240 tons...
...motion for years but still remains in limbo. To push the economy ahead while the government is being repaired, Gorbachev last week appointed an executive panel. Its members include Russian Prime Minister Ivan Silayev; Arkadi Volsky, who has been pushing for conversion of defense plants to civilian production; and Grigori Yavlinsky, an economist best known for helping draft the so-called 500-Day Plan for radical reform...
...Soviet economist Grigori Yavlinsky...
...full story of the Chernobyl disaster and its aftermath may never be known. Soviet officials have managed to keep most of the details secret. But in The Truth About Chernobyl, nuclear physicist and former Chernobyl chief engineer Grigori Medvedev gives a searing account of the accident. His book, published in the Soviet Union two years ago, will be released in English this week by Basic Books to coincide with the disaster's fifth anniversary...
...major question: since the 1922 constitution setting up the Soviet Union * would be dissolved, would republics be able to secede merely by refusing to sign the new treaty? Grigori Revenko, a member of Gorbachev's current Presidential Council, has suggested that the rebellious Baltic republics of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, at least, would not be allowed to go as easily as that; they would still have to negotiate with Moscow over property issues. And they might not be the only ones. Akaky Asatiani, a leader of the Georgian parliament, said flatly last week that Georgia "will not sign the federal...