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Much of the responsibility for enforcing the cleanup will fall on Nikolai Vorontsov, who last year became chairman of the State Committee on the Protection of Nature. A noted biologist and environmentalist, Vorontsov, 54, is the first non-Communist ministerial-rank member of the Soviet government since the Bolshevik Revolution. Observes a Western diplomat in Moscow: "Three years ago, I'd never have thought it possible that environmentalists would get this...
...former Central Committee Secretary who was demoted in the early 1970s after complaining to Ceausescu about nepotism in the party. Vice President Dumitru Mazilu is also a lifelong communist whose career ground to a halt after he clashed with the dictator. ^ The same is true of General Nikolai Militaru, the Defense Minister. Should old bosses, even if disgraced under Ceausescu, run the country's affairs...
...stage Five-Year Plan to improve the economy that Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov unveiled last week reflected the tug-of-war going on within the leadership. Ryzhkov made clear that his approach represented a "third alternative" to making minor corrections in central planning or plunging headlong into a free-market economy. Over the next two years, he said, the state intended to use "rigid directive measures" to reduce the national deficit from about 10% to 2.5% of GNP and increase supplies of consumer goods. A real market with varied forms of property ownership would take shape after 1992, he added, when...
Despite Gorbachev's plea for urgent action on the economy, a long debate over procedural matters threw the Congress behind schedule, delaying Premier Nikolai I. Ryzhkov's economic report. That report apparently will be based on a long-term plan developed by his deputy, Leonid Abalkin, that includes making the ruble convertible, selling off unprofitable state enterprises and developing a stock market...
...much trouble Gorbachev faced at home: ethnic unrest, secessionism, economic deterioration, labor strife, an emboldened political opposition. When Eduard Shevardnadze visited the U.S. in September, he seemed preoccupied with domestic issues, especially the Soviet Union's problem with nationalities. A surprising and revealing addition to his entourage was Nikolai Shmelev, an economist who specializes in dire predictions and drastic prescriptions for the Soviet economy...