Word: mikhail
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...Mikhail Gorbachev specializes in the politics of the impossible. Even his job description -- to preside over a country that is falling apart -- is a contradiction in terms: . He may be the most widely disliked figure in the Soviet Union, yet he is convinced that he alone can avert outright warfare among tribes and factions that hate one another even more than they hate...
Though Soviet weapons were the duds of the gulf war, the Kremlin is also in the market to make arms sales. During a visit to Moscow last week, British Prime Minister John Major appealed to Mikhail Gorbachev for his cooperation. The Soviet leader is reported to have intimated that he would agree to an embargo against Iraq only for as long as Saddam remained in power. That may be the best anyone can hope for. Every major war in the Middle East has been followed by a major escalation in the regional arms race. This time, too, visions...
Similar fears are being voiced in the U.S.S.R., and the approach of a nationwide referendum on March 17 has done nothing to ease them. President Mikhail Gorbachev is asking citizens to vote yes or no on preserving the union; the question is unsubtly worded virtually to demand a yes reply. A Pravda editorial posed the choice as "Union or Chaos...
...Mikhail Gorbachev may hold out hope for the return of perestroika, but he won't be getting much encouragement. "Among Gorbachev's top advisers, just about everybody is gone," claims John Mroz, president of the Institute for East-West Security Studies. Many other reform-minded leaders have left the country altogether. The latest departure: Boris Fyodorov, the respected finance minister of the Russian republic, who will take up a job in London later this month at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Most of Gorbachev's policy shapers have been replaced by unknowns from the Central Committee's ideology...
MOSCOW--Secretary of State James A. Baker III failed yesterday to break a stalemate on arms control treaties with the Soviet Union, but he offered praise for Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's efforts to defuse tensions in he Baltic republics and to energize his stagnant economy...