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...alternative plan that we have yet to hear?" Armenian Deputy Genrikh Igityan was even more brutal. "I have sympathy with you," he said, tvurning to Ryzhkov, "but are you capable of bringing this country out of crisis?" Ryzhkov, said worker Leonid Sukhov, would "certainly have to step down." Nikolai Ivanov, the controversial public prosecutor and Kremlin gadfly, went even further. Gorbachev, he said, would also have...
...Down with Gorbachev!" some 10,000 protesters shouted within earshot of the Kremlin. "Down with the KGB!" The demonstrators had gathered to support criminal investigators Telman Gdlyan and Nikolai Ivanov. The two became popular heroes last year after publicly accusing Politburo conservative Yegor Ligachev of corruption; both were elected to parliament last spring. But now they are accused of illegally detaining witnesses and forcing confessions in a six-year probe of a multimillion-ruble scandal involving racketeering and influence peddling in Uzbekistan, which nailed the son-in-law of the late Communist Party boss Leonid Brezhnev, among others...
Last week a Supreme Soviet session agreed that Gdlyan and Ivanov had broken the law by arresting family members of suspected bribe takers. But the legislators stopped short of lifting their parliamentary immunity so that prosecutors could press charges against them. Noted former dissident Roy Medvedev, who headed a Supreme Soviet inquiry into the affair: "One thing is clear -- they have no evidence that Ligachev took bribes." The crowd outside the Kremlin, however, continued to call for Ligachev's resignation...
...next day Pravda denounced both Ivanov and Gdlyan for their "provocative statements" and announced that a special government commission would investigate the prosecutors' "methods." Ligachev then issued a public denial of the allegations and described them as "political provocation." The commission wasted no time in issuing a lengthy report at week's end that assailed Gdlyan's professional conduct and charged him with "insulting people who were under arrest...
Even some liberals criticize Gdlyan. Last week Yegor Yakovlev, editor of the reform-minded Moscow News, tore into him for "the tragedy" of the Khint case. Others say Gdlyan and Ivanov are using public accusations to promote their political careers. If that's so, it appears to be working: Ivanov won his seat with 61% of the vote...