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Russia's Volsky in some ways is typical: he began working in the military- industrial system in Leonid Brezhnev's day and eventually rose to chief of industry for the Communist Party under Mikhail Gorbachev. His Industrialists' Union claims to represent 70% of the country's state-enterprise managers. In June it joined forces with two other parties, one headed by Yeltsin's Vice President, Alexander Rutskoi, to form Civic Union, which is probably the best- organized political faction in the country. Yeltsin, zigzagging between conservatives and reformers in the same manner he denounced when Gorbachev was doing...
With the collapse of Soviet communism, the possibilities for diplomatic rapprochement might seem to be good, but that is misleading. Even though Moscow and Tokyo talk of settling the dispute in terms of "legitimacy and justice," control of the Kuriles turns more on issues of realpolitik. Says Mikhail Vysokov, director of the Sakhalin Center of Modern History: "Those with power have rights. When Russia had more power, it had more rights. Now Japan has more power...
...surprising that Shevardnadze has seldom had a day off since he returned last March to the small Caucasian republic where he ruled as Communist Party boss before Mikhail Gorbachev summoned him to Moscow in 1985. At a time in life when other senior statesmen would be content to write their memoirs, the 64-year-old diplomat has embarked on the riskiest mission of his career: bringing peace and stability to his homeland. There he daily faces more violence than he did as a major player in the cold war, as Georgia is beset by ethnic rebellions in the independence-minded...
...next. They could draft an agreement in principle on the transfer of power to an interim government in the territories, then let working groups spell out the specifics. Palestinian negotiators would like this approach, and anticipate that Rabin's basic proposal for autonomy will be, in spokeswoman Hanan Mikhail-Ashrawi's words, "much more comprehensive and serious" than Shamir's. But they are looking first for some tangible gestures to set the right tone: a complete brake on settlements and an end to harsh occupation rules...
...sickle. The 13 judges, seated at a nearby tribunal, did not appear to be completely comfortable in their new black robes with white linings. Minutes after the hearings opened, the court became embroiled in a free-for-all about how to deal with the fact that former President Mikhail Gorbachev had refused to show up. Show trials have always been a staple of Soviet political discourse, but the proceeding that began in Moscow last week is different. This time the Communist Party is in the dock, as Russians struggle to come to terms with seven decades of history. At issue...