Word: nomenklatura
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...TIME: Was Zedillo in charge of this nomenklatura? SALINAS: No, it was the nomenklatura who took advantage of Zedillo's decision to cover up his blunders over the devaluation. He played into their hands...
...TIME: in your book, you often use the Russian term: nomenklatura. Who exactly do you mean in the Mexican sense? SALINAS: It's that group of traditionalists who benefited from a closed economy, a one-party system, and from an attitude of alleged opposition to the US. while they were really collaborating under the table. They are specialists in fabrication...
...Russia's future development depends on whether the two groups within the Establishment manage to coexist peacefully. One group is made up of people who were able to get rich during Yeltsin's rule. The other group, mainly supporters of communist Gennadi Zyuganov, consists of former members of the nomenklatura who were left out when the country's wealth was divided. Their main purpose and political motivation are the redistribution of the country's wealth so that they too can get rich. Whether it is communism that achieves that goal or something else, they do not really care. If Yeltsin...
...leaning officials, is only one who says he is "not persuaded that the President will promote liberal reform" if he is returned to office. Indeed, Alexander Solzhenitsyn's gloomy observation of two years ago seems even more apt: "The system that governs us is a combination of the old nomenklatura, the sharks of finance, false democrats and the kgb. I cannot call this democracy...and we do not know in which direction it will develop...
...lane. The Second Secretary here is Zhavdets Ilyasov, 49, a retired colonel of Interior Ministry troops. The peeling wallpaper and crumbling ceiling in his office do not discourage him. He takes pride in the obvious differences between his austere communist organization and the fat cats of the old Soviet nomenklatura, who in the new Russia have profited from their high positions. "It is a myth," he says, "that we have a 'Red Governor' in Ulyanovsk. Those in charge here are former party secretaries who are now comfortably well...