Word: medvedev
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Twenty-two people also voted against Vadim A. Medvedev, a Gorbachev ally named to the Politburo in September 1988 to assume the ideology portfolio stripped from Ligachev...
Four days earlier, the Kremlin had dispatched three Politburo members to the Baltic region to head off dissent on the constitutional package. While Vadim Medvedev, party secretary for ideology, visited factories in Latvia, and Politburo member Nikolai Slyunkov engaged in street debates in Lithuania, former KGB chief Viktor Chebrikov confronted the restive Estonians. "You can achieve sovereignty," he warned during a factory visit, "but you can lose everything else...
...Vadim Medvedev, 59. A brainy culture specialist who rose through the ranks of the Leningrad party organization, Medvedev since 1983 has headed the Central Committee's Science and Education Department. His appointment as a voting member of the Politburo, over the heads of seven nonvoting members waiting in the wings for such a summons, is little short of astonishing. In effect, moreover, he was given Ligachev's ideological portfolio. Promoted...
...member policy-making Central Committee also named Vadim A. Medvedev a full Politburo member and gave him responsibility for ideology...
...Medvedev told reporters afterward that Mikhail S. Solomentsev, 75, also was retired from the Politburo...