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"Political obstacles created by politicians make the success of economic reforms impossible," said Grigory Yavlinsky, in the fifth annual Gordon lecture, which was titled "Can Russian Economic Reform Succeed?"
But in the aftermath of last month's attempted Soviet coup, all bets are off. Although the Harvard plan once seemed like a leading model for economic reform, the options have since multiplied a hundred fold, and the future of the Soviet economy--if there is a Soviet economy--is...
Grigory Yavlinsky, former deputy prime minister of the Russian federation, said at the press conference that the talks have the support of Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev. Yavlinsky stressed that the economic crisis in the Soviet Union had worsened, but the opportunity for change had improved.
Tass quoted a Soviet Army deputy chief of staff, Col. Gen. Grigory Krivosheyev, as saying an agreement was struck between Defense Minister Dmitri T. Yazov and Estonian Prime Minister Edgar Savisaar on military service for Estonian men. Tass said the accord will allow some Estonian draftees to serve in Estonia...
Can this be the same TASS that has been known chiefly for its dull, turgid reporting and its habit of tucking important news into the last paragraph? The captive wire service that was run by and for the Soviet government, peddling propaganda before facts? It is indeed, but something remarkable...