Word: mikhail
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Some of the conservative officers in Moscow are trying to pretend the Iraqi collapse never happened. Marshal Viktor Kulikov told a Soviet news agency that Iraqi soldiers had failed, not Soviet equipment. Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, an adviser to President Mikhail Gorbachev, said any claim that the gulf war proved the superiority of American arms was "sheer propaganda...
While President Mikhail Gorbachev scored a victory of sorts in last week's national referendum on the Soviet Union's future, the big winner was his archrival, Boris Yeltsin. At Yeltsin's urging, voters in the Russian Republic approved the idea of a popularly elected President. Yeltsin plans to seek that post, which is likely to intensify his confrontation with the Kremlin. And at the moment he would be the odds-on favorite to win it; leaders of a fast- growing miners' strike have already pledged their support...
...improvement in living standards in two years. But unlike most, Yeltsin has taken his political lumps and recovered from them. He has perceptibly matured from the brash, almost bullying Moscow party boss of 1987, who boasted that he fired 40% of the party hacks who ran the city. Says Mikhail Poltaranin, a Yeltsin adviser who edited the pro-Yeltsin Moskovskaya Pravda in 1987: "When he was being attacked, he had to defend himself, and it was very unnerving. He made mistakes. Nowadays he's more balanced, calmer, more sure of himself...
...ordinary people than his denunciation of the privileges of the political elite. In his autobiography, Against the Grain, Yeltsin describes the opulence of the Politburo villa that he was offered (and turned down) in 1987, wickedly reminding readers along the way that the house had once been assigned to Mikhail Gorbachev. As party first secretary in Sverdlovsk during the 1970s, Yeltsin enjoyed the same perks that Gorbachev received in Stavropol province in the south. But while Gorbachev took to the privileges like an English earl to a grouse-shooting party, Yeltsin seemed to feel he had got them by sneaking...
WORLD: The clash between Boris and Mikhail heats up over a Soviet referendum...