Word: pugo
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Dates: during 1989-1989
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...voting members of the Politburo, Yuri Solovyev and Nikolai Talyzin, also retired. Their places were taken by Yevgeny Primakov, head of the Soviet of the Union legislative chamber, and Boris Pugo, head of the party commission overseeing discipline...
...Moscow than have the other two republics. Latvian Riflemen made up the Kremlin's elite Praetorian Guard in the years after the Bolshevik Revolution, and party boss Arvid Pelshe became a fixture of the Brezhnev gerontocracy. Latvian First Secretary Janis Vagris, who gained his post last October when Boris Pugo was promoted to Moscow's Party Control Committee, is viewed by many as a compromise choice whose views on reform and political pluralism are acceptable to party conservatives...