Word: popover
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...school classmate. Gorbachev obviously did not believe Lukyanov -- he refused even to acknowledge his old comrade when they passed in a corridor -- and others have fingered Lukyanov as the ideological mastermind of the plot. So many other suspected conspirators are being investigated that Moscow Mayor Gavril Popov felt obliged to issue a public appeal: no citizen should denounce another as a coup supporter in order to settle a private score or to get rid of a boss whose job the informer wants. Such denunciations were among the most infamous features of Stalin's purges...
...Democratic Reform Movement, intended to become a unified and permanent opposition to the Communist Party, or at least its hard-line faction. Organizers include former Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze; Alexander Yakovlev, an adviser to President Mikhail Gorbachev who is sometimes called the "architect of perestroika"; and Mayors Gavril Popov of Moscow and Anatoli Sobchak of Leningrad...
...thwart a planned takeover by radicals who had organized armed assault groups. "The facts in this article were invented," Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov protested in Parliament. "No one is is preparing paratroopers for actions against the people." But even that did not kill the conspiracy talk. Moscow Mayor Gavril Popov and members of the Russian Federation government charged that Communist Party provocateurs and military hard-liners were trying to organize phony reformist rallies Oct. 6 and 7, at which they would stage violent incidents that would serve as a pretext for a coup...
...favorite economists, asserted that "the economic situation in the country is catastrophic." The leading scapegoat for the troubles is Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov, whose own proposed remedy is a go-slow package that preserves much of the center's control over the economy. Led by Moscow Mayor Gavril Popov, some 40,000 demonstrators marched in the capital last week demanding Ryzhkov's resignation. The parliament of the Russian Republic, which accounts for half the Soviet Union's population, seconded the motion in a resolution approved...
...economy has been worsened by the collapse of the country's food- distribution system. The shortage of bread in Moscow reached such proportions last week that Mayor Gavril Popov proposed wage hikes for bakery workers to attract more employees and even suggested that army conscripts be pressed into service at the ovens. The list of excuses -- breakdowns and labor problems at factories, outdated equipment, transport troubles and an unexpected rise in demand for bread -- sounded all too familiar to Russians, who are already fuming over the scarcity of cigarettes. As the government daily Izvestia sardonically noted: "We should...