Word: ryzhkov
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MOSCOW--Secretary of State George Shultz and Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov met today while arms control experts from both sides worked for a possible agreement on removing medium-range missiles from Europe...
...session with Ryzhkov, expected to focus on Soviet economic policy, was scheduled to last about an hour. After a working lunch with his own aides, Shultz was to go to the Kremlin for a meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev...
...people had died. When some Western papers carried increasingly sensational but unconfirmed accounts of the reactor's condition, TASS reported that the fire was under control. At week's end the official Soviet news agency buttressed earlier claims of the plant's safety by reporting that Politburo Members Nikolai Ryzhkov and Yegor Ligachev had toured the damaged facility...
Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov, 56, cut his teeth in the Siberian town of Sverdlovsk and gained a reputation as a forceful administrator. Boris Yeltsin, 55, who replaced Grishin as Moscow party boss, also came from Siberia. When Yeltsin heard grumbling about poor bus service in the capital, he reportedly rode the overcrowded vehicles himself, then ordered the head of the city transport department to do the same...
...member of both the Central Committee Secretariat and the Politburo, Ryzhkov has been deeply involved in drafting the upcoming 1986-1991 Five-Year Plan. His latest promotion makes it clear that more than anyone else, he will be responsible for supervising Gorbachev's much awaited revival of the Soviet economy...