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...supplier of heat and electricity, to survive. It's a relationship that has also weathered virtually every kind of political storm during the 20th century, and even earlier. "We provided warmth and light under 'our little father the Czar,' and when 'our people' [the communists] came in," says Sergei Rumyantsev, Mosenergo's deputy director general. "Now we do it under the democrats, because they need us as well. We have nothing to do with politics...
...company still faces many challenges. The most formidable: nonpayment of utility bills by its electricity customers, a cash-flow challenge that Rumyantsev calls "a 24-hour-a-day headache." Yet Mosenergo is not alone in this agony: being stiffed by customers is common for Russian utilities and other businesses in the brash new age of no-holds-barred capitalism. If anything, the company may be less plagued than others, since its center of operations is in Moscow, where business is booming and power consumers are presumably more flush...
...officials continue to deny that their facilities are the source of the leaks into Germany. "Not a single gram of plutonium-239 is missing from storage," a spokesman for the Federal Counter-Intelligence Service insisted last week. "Our storage system is as reliable as a bank vault," claimed Alexander Rumyantsev, director of the Kurchatov Institute, a leading nuclear laboratory in Moscow...
Yeltsin meanwhile is moving on the political front to effect what ally Oleg Rumyantsev calls a peaceful democratic revolution. Rumyantsev runs a commission that is putting the finishing touches on a new Russian constitution. Yeltsin wants to submit it to the Russian Congress of People's Deputies at month's end and possibly to a popular referendum in January. The draft is modeled to a considerable extent and quite consciously on the U.S. Constitution. It declares Russia to be "a sovereign, social democratic state ruled by law" and specifically recognizes "the inviolable, natural right of private property." It establishes...
...system overachieves in one notable undertaking: paperwork. Soviet Economist Alexei Rumyantsev, writing in the official trade-union newspaper Trud, estimated in 1983 that Soviet bureaucrats generated 800 billion documents a year. In addition, Rumyantsev noted that factories and offices were constantly being disrupted by inspections: he told of a machine-tool factory that had been visited 145 times in a single year...
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