Word: grigoris
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...GRIGORI YAVLINSKY Democratic Wunderkind...
...parliamentary campaign got off to a stumbling start last week when the Central Electoral Commission refused to register the Yabloko bloc of economist Grigori Yavlinksy, citing a technicality: the group had violated election laws by dropping six names from its list of more than 200 candidates without supporting documents. The surprise decision to exclude the only reformist group in the present parliament with a serious chance to do well in the election set off an immediate firestorm of protest. Yavlinksy claimed that officials "in the top echelons of power" were taking advantage of the President's illness to settle political...
...Russians have little money to repair or maintain Baikonur and are dependent on NASA payments--$400 million has been budgeted so far--for the use of their facilities. "The payment is not commensurate with Russian participation in the project," grumbles Grigori Khozin, director of the Center for Global Problems at the Russian Diplomatic Academy and an expert on his country's space program...
...Russian democrats were as concerned about a referendum victory. Radical economist Grigori Yavlinsky, leader of a reform bloc ranked second in public-opinion polls, believes a popularly elected legislature would be empowered to amend and ratify the constitution if it failed at the ballot box. But this is precisely the scenario Yeltsin wants to avoid. Since the new batch of deputies elected this week is likely to be an unwieldy mix of democrats, centrists, communists and nationalists, he could find himself confronted by a new parliament just as intent on whittling down his powers as the one he dissolved. Without...
...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...