Word: medvedev
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flew to Moscow on April 1, bringing a typed copy of the essay. Historian Roy Medvedev came to see me that evening, and I exchanged it for the final chapters of his book on Stalin. Medvedev showed my essay to friends (which I had given him permission to do), and he passed on their comments. After making a few changes, I gave the manuscript back to Medvedev. He was going to produce a dozen or more carbon copies. Some, he warned me, might end up abroad. I replied that I had taken that into account. (We were communicating in writing...
Last week a Supreme Soviet session agreed that Gdlyan and Ivanov had broken the law by arresting family members of suspected bribe takers. But the legislators stopped short of lifting their parliamentary immunity so that prosecutors could press charges against them. Noted former dissident Roy Medvedev, who headed a Supreme Soviet inquiry into the affair: "One thing is clear -- they have no evidence that Ligachev took bribes." The crowd outside the Kremlin, however, continued to call for Ligachev's resignation...