Word: leonide
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...Leonid Kravchuk, the chairman of the parliament, leads a bloc of Communists who have broken with hard-liners in the party to form a coalition with moderates in the democratic opposition. He is negotiating with Moscow for a "renewed union" more like a common market than the federation Mikhail Gorbachev advocates. Kravchuk may quit the party to run in the republic's first presidential election this fall...
Traces of that attitude linger. During the parliamentary debate, Deputy Leonid Sukhov, a taxi driver from the Ukraine, warned that free movement of citizens in and out would open the Soviet borders to AIDS. Officers of the KGB border guards mounted an exhibit of guns and drugs seized by customs agents as a warning of what could be expected if the frontiers are opened. Nonetheless, the law stoutly declares that "each citizen of the U.S.S.R. has the right to exit and enter the Soviet Union" and that this right "cannot be arbitrarily denied." Full implementation was put off supposedly...
Once in, Yeltsin rose rapidly. A vigorous, workaholic leader, he spared neither himself nor his subordinates. In 1976 Leonid Brezhnev unexpectedly promoted him over the heads of more senior officials to the post of Sverdlovsk provincial first secretary. He soon met and became friends with Gorbachev, by now his opposite number in Stavropol. "When I entered Gorbachev's office," Yeltsin wrote in his autobiography, "we would embrace warmly. The relationship was a good...
...also accountable for the sudden illness of glasnost. Leonid Kravchenko, whom he appointed in November as chief of the State Committee for Television and Radio, has been systematically chipping away at the policy of openness. He suspended the popular music and information show Vzglyad (View) when it planned to broadcast a discussion of the resignation of Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, who had charged that dictatorship was returning. Kravchenko also forced Interfax, an independent alternative to the official Soviet news agency TASS, out of his headquarters...
...speaks with Leonid Abalkin, Gorbachev's topadvisor on economic reform. He speaks with AnatolySobchak, a reformist Leningrad deputy. Moreinteresting, perhaps, is his afternoon with NinaAndreyevna, who gained nationwide notoriety as aGorbachev critic, an advocate of the Stalinistcommand system...