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...putsch, and another by Russia's prosecutor general, Valentin Stepankov. So far, little light has been shed on the whereabouts of the vanished loot. But the source appears indisputable: the Soviet treasury. "The party did not see any difference between its budget and that of the state," says Nikolai Fedorov, justice minister of the Russian Federation. "Tens of millions of dollars have been siphoned...
...Communists also appear to have helped themselves to the government's gold stocks. When perestroika started, Western estimates put Soviet gold reserves at 2,500 to 3,500 tons. In January 1990, said former Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov last week, the country had 784 tons. After the August coup failed, Russian officials announced ominously that "a certain amount of gold is missing." In September, Grigori Yavlinsky, Gorbachev's top economic adviser, claimed that two-thirds of the gold reserves had been sold abroad in 1990, leaving only 240 tons...
...list of lost riches that Soviet citizens believe were pilfered by the party. Despite mounting evidence, party officials deny that even one ruble has been squirreled away in foreign banks. But a string of mysterious suicides casts doubt on such disavowals. Five days after the coup fizzled, party treasurer Nikolai Kruchina threw himself out a window. Six weeks later, his predecessor, Georgi Pavlov, fell to his death the same way. And two weeks ago, Dmitri Lisovolik, former deputy chief of the party's international department, also leaped out a window several weeks after investigators found $600,000 in U.S. dollars...
...republic's cities by large majorities, but he did not fare so well in rural areas, where resistance to change remains strong. In Leshkovo, a village about 35 miles northeast of Moscow, the prospect of Yeltsin's wresting control of Russia from the shattered central government did not impress Nikolai Petrovich, a 67-year-old pensioner, whose refusal to give his last name betrayed a fear of contact with foreigners rarely found nowadays in urban areas...
...extent of the corruption may have been what drove the party's top financial officer, Nikolai Kruchina, to leap to his death on Aug. 26 from a balcony on the seventh floor of -- appropriately -- a luxury Moscow apartment building set aside for top party officials. As the Central Committee's general affairs officer, Kruchina had been in charge of the party's billions and would have known of irregularities, if not actually been involved in them. Valentin Stepankov, chief prosecutor of the Russian Federation, said officials interviewed Kruchina about party financial affairs shortly before his death. "He seemed to have...