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...arrest. Another, Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, is so disaffected that his departure is only a matter of time. Speculation is rife that he may even run against Putin in next March's presidential race. But the immediate battlefield is the Duma. As one faithful Kremlin mouthpiece, journalist Mikhail Leontyev, remarked on state-controlled TV: "Who would have thought that real politics would suddenly emerge in this country?" The Duma has not been known as a body in which real politics take place. Up to now it's been a docile extension of presidential power. A hostile Duma - with the power...
...other Soviet publications have carried articles by economists branding the Soviet system "obsolete" and advocating a more or less free market system. Sergei Afanasyev, a deputy premier of one of the Soviet republics, fortnight ago came out for "material stimuli" as a necessary mainspring of the Russian economy. Lev Leontyev, an economist of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, from which initial opposition to Liberman's theories came, recently advocated the profit motive and payment of interest as "key instruments of economic control...
...drama of destalinization moved into the theater last week. A new Moscow play pitted a Stalin-trained secret police heavy ("Give me this Leontyev, and in two weeks he will crack like a nut") against a clean-cut hero cop who ringingly denounces the Stalinists: "They are not tormented by their conscience. They never...
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