Word: kunayev
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Andropov group" in the Politburo is believed to be composed of Defense Minister Marshal Dmitri Ustinov, 74, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, 73, Kazakh Party Chief Dinmukhammed Kunayev, 70, and Vladimir Shcherbitsky...
Three Politburo members are excluded as contenders for supreme power because they are not ethnic Russians-an unacknowledged but key qualification for the job of party boss. They are: Vladimir Shcherbitsky, 62, Dinmukhamed Kunayev, 68, and Arvid Pelshe, 81. Others, like Defense Minister Ustinov and Foreign Minister Gromyko, 70, and Party Ideologist Mikhail Suslov, 77, would appear to be disqualified because of their narrow specializations. The youngest member of the Politburo, Leningrad Party Boss Grigori Romanov, 57, may be a contender for power in a few years. For the time being, however, he has no political base in Moscow; citizens...
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