Word: kremlin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Council, put his net worth at $38,500. And just how transparent is Yeltsin being? Last year he explained that his income was modest (largely derived from royalties on his memoirs), but not to worry, the state covers most of his expenses. This time around, he's silent. The Kremlin confirmed the figures, but gave no reason for the income jump. "Why should this figure upset so many journalists?" wondered a Kremlin spokesman. "Our President is by no means outrageously wealthy, and he has earned every kopeck honestly...
...central bank's reserves have dwindled to about $14 billion, and the Kremlin's great fear is that it will have to devalue the ruble. That would cruelly increase prices for ordinary Russian citizens, cause social and political upheaval and dash Yeltsin's hopes for his legacy as a reformer. At the Kremlin on Friday, he vowed there would be no devaluation and issued a fusillade of decrees on how to get tough with tax dodgers. He fired the chief tax collector and replaced him with Boris Fyodorov, a former Finance Minister and a true reformer. Yeltsin also announced plans...
...Kremlin may be strapped for cash, but the space program remains a priority. "It's the one place Russia still believes it's an equal player," says Meier. "And you have to admit, they achieved miracles in space -- a lot more than they ever did on the ground." Which, of course, is exactly where the crisis-ridden country needs a miracle right...
...cult of diversity, affirmative action, conspicuous compassion and radical participatory democracy. I wrote in favor of taboo notions, such as a Promise Keepers, student apathy, honor and (most unforgivably) conservativism. Moreover, I wrote these things in the flagship publication of what not too long ago was known commonly as "Kremlin on the Charles." No, I could not have sought or expected popularity and its absence concerns...
...treated as you and I would be treated if we had disposed of 40,000 nuclear missiles. And anyway, Gorbachev was a polemical swinger right to the end. The ideological imagination was hardly dead. The following Sunday, no doubt expressing the new Soviet line, chief press spokesman for the Kremlin Gennadi Gerasimov appeared with Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes. It's true, he said, that communism is evolving, but so is Christianity. Christian values and communist values--"especially early Christian values"--are the same...