Word: makarov
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...through the car window. But the blow had fractured her skull and lacerated her brain. She staggered only a little way to a barbed-wire gate before collapsing. "I knew," Graham told police, "I couldn't leave the key witness to our crime alive." Armed with a Russian-made Makarov pistol, he fired twice. One bullet caught her right between the eyes. The entire episode was over in about two minutes...
...Petersburg Russian-made 9-mm Makarov pistol...
...Yeltsin's men say they have no desire to start a witch-hunt against specific party officials, including Gorbachev. "There are no victors and no vanquished," says Shakhrai. "People should be tried only for criminal actions, not because they were members of the party nomenklatura." Another team lawyer, Andrei Makarov, puts it more succinctly: "We do not want to turn these hearings into a political show...
...verdict will have enormous importance for the political future of a country that knows little about and has less faith in constitutional rights and legal procedings. The Yeltsin team wants to establish the crucial point that the President was actually defending the constitution when he dissolved the party. Says Makarov: "The court should create a precedent and state clearly that any organizations -- fascist, communist or even superdemocratic -- should be subject to a ban when they try to realize their ideological goals through violence and violation...
...campaign plane has its perks. The Tupolev jet is several cuts above most Aeroflot planes, with a clean interior and flight attendants who actually attend. Dinner on the flight to Perm included caviar on eggs, fresh salads, half a chicken and unlimited Pepsi, tea and coffee. Yeltsin's bodyguards, Makarov pistols dangling in shoulder holsters, bantered with officials and reporters in the aisles. The Soviet reporters passed around the vodka and caught up on sleep. The phone system is so bad that Russian reporters working domestically don't bother to write on laptop computers; they can't transmit stories back...