Word: grigoryants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was more death and damage in Alma-Ata than was at first reported in the Soviet media. According to Nazarbaev and Interior Minister Grigory Knyazev, up to 3,000 youths participated in the demonstrations, significantly more than the "several hundred" reported in the Soviet press. They also said that...
In recent months Gorbachev has been removing Brezhnev-era holdovers with a blend of maneuver and muscle. Grigory Romanov, the Politburo member responsible for the Soviet Union's military-industrial complex, who reportedly tried to block Gorbachev's rise to power and became the target of a whispering campaign about...
Treatment for the Soviet Union's estimated 9 million alcoholics ranges from spending a night in a sobering-up center or a factory clinic to a term in a work camp for those who habitually appear drunk at work or in public. Western- style medical detoxification and counseling is still...
Gorbachev, 5-ft. 9-in., stocky and balding, has amply demonstrated both teeth and smile in a whirlwind half-year. He has taken hammer and sickle to the country's bureaucracy. To date, 22 of 121 regional Communist Party first secretaries and dozens of officials in major cities and republic...
Once again, surprise was in the air in Moscow. For the second time in two months, the increasingly confident new Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, last week shook the Kremlin with a dramatic burst of changes at the top. Grigory Romanov, the man who some Western analysts believe had been Gorbachev...