Word: leonide
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...themselves, and the assembly was not about to let them get away with long-winded, cliche-laden speeches. Where past Kremlin meetings greeted boiler-plate presentations with perfunctory outbursts of applause, this one constantly interrupted party ideologist Vadim Medvedev's lackluster presentation with insolent rhythmic clapping. When chief economist Leonid Abalkin warned delegates that the socialist idea had begun to lose its popular appeal and the only way to save it was to switch to a market economy, he was greeted with derision. The warmest ovation was saved for conservative hero Yegor Ligachev, who fired up the audience with...
...only TIME representative who was present for both interviews -- and also for a session with Leonid Brezhnev in 1979 -- is the Moscow bureau's Felix Rosenthal. "Although Gorbachev in 1985 was a vivid contrast to Brezhnev -- young, smiling, talkative -- you could still sense a successful provincial party boss," he says. "Gorbachev in 1990 is polished, quite at home in his Kremlin office with the modern furniture that fits his image...
...handed me a typewritten sheet of paper. I saw the typed -- not signed -- name of Leonid Brezhnev. The decree was undated and made no mention of banishment...
...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...
...Leonid Fridman '85 is a founder of SONG...