Word: parliamentarians
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...more moderate opponents who want to slow down economic change. Some are acting under the wings of the parliament. Some are regrouping in the provinces, in old trade unions and local government councils. Some are in the government itself, like conservative Vice President Alexander Rutskoi, or the outspoken parliamentarian Ruslan Khasbulatov, who was elected speaker as Yeltsin's ally but now spearheads the charge to reduce the power of the presidency. So far, none has emerged as an alternative center of power, but together they act as a substantial drag on the parlous progress of reform...
...Council voted to re-nominate CabotProfessor of American Literature Alan E. Heimert'49 to be parliamentarian of the Faculty...
...pretensions." One evening, the main television news program, Vremya, devoted its entire 17-minute opening segment to anti-Yeltsin diatribes. Soviet television even aired unusual live coverage of the Supreme Soviet as lawmakers voted to censure Yeltsin, 292 to 29, with 27 abstentions. His TV statement, said hard-line parliamentarian Anatoli Chekhoyev, "was tantamount to a declaration of civil...
...Council Parliamentarian Michael E. Johnson '92 said that he disapproved of expelling members to attain a quorum, but added that the move waslegitimate...
Boris Yeltsin, Moscow parliamentarian and reformer...