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Throughout the cold war, the hot line-- really a direct telex-- between the U.S. President and the Soviet Premier was used several times in critical moments. Defense Secretary Les Aspin will soon announce the establishment of a defense hot line between himself and the Russian defense chief, General Pavel Grachev...
Announcing a new postcommunist military doctrine last week, Russia's security chiefs declared that they view no country or alliance as an enemy. At the same time, Defense Minister Pavel Grachev took a dim view of NATO's moving its flags and formations closer to the Russian border. " NATO is a military alliance," he said. "So what does it need new members for? Against whom is it aimed...
...seemed more foreboding than usual. While President Boris Yeltsin was on an impromptu vacation, he continued to trade accusations -- but made no progress in resolving differences over how to share power -- with archrival Ruslan Khasbulatov, the capricious chairman of Russia's parliament. In remarks echoed by his Defense Minister, Pavel Grachev, Yeltsin used an interview on the eve of the biggest Soviet-era military holiday to rebuke hard-liners, including dissident officers, for trying "to play the army card" in a bid to derail Russian democracy. The next day 20,000 procommunist and ultranationalist demonstrators rallied next to the Kremlin...
...most intriguing accounts came from Pavel Voshchanov, press & secretary to Russian President Boris Yeltsin. In a series in the daily Komsomolskaya Pravda, he quoted extensively from confidential party memorandums revealing that in 1988, eager to acquire foreign currency, the Communists had set up an "invisible party economy" that permitted them to hide money in overseas joint ventures and launder it through a network of domestic and foreign commercial banks. According to another story in the paper, since last December alone, the party has sold 280 billion rubles for $12 billion in U.S. currency, which was then funneled through party-controlled...
Beyond that, the Soviets are even more eager than the Democratic Party to switch massive resources from the defense establishment to the civilian economy. Deputy Defense Minister Pavel Grachev told a parliamentary committee last week that the armed forces might be cut almost in half, to 2 million to 2.5 million people, by 1994. His boss, Yevgeni Shaposhnikov, later said firm plans call for mustering out only 700,000 of the present roughly 4 million. But he added that "further cuts are not excluded depending on the military- political situation in the world" -- presumably meaning, in part, what...