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...swords-into-plowshares effort has produced some quirky situations. For example, the Ministry for Medium-Machine Building, which is responsible for building nuclear weapons, has been given the job of modernizing the dairy industry. Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov disclosed last month that the Moscow Aviation Factory will soon produce pasta...
Prime Minister Nikolai I. Ryzhkov, whose popularity soared among Soviets when he was named to head a special Politburo commission directing relief efforts for Armenia's earth-quake, received a broader mandate than Gorbachev with only 10 votes opposed to his candidacy...
...Kremlinologists read potentially ominous portents into the recent emergence of other Soviet officials into the limelight. Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov has assumed an increasingly high profile, particularly in dealing with the post-earthquake cleanup operation in Armenia. Shevardnadze is also a familiar face on the evening news these days, as is Yegor Ligachev, the dour conservative who has worked at softening his brusque image since being bumped from the de facto No. 2 party slot by Gorbachev last September. Some tea-leaf readers see the increasing visibility of such officials as evidence of Gorbachev's waning clout; others...
With hope fading that any survivors remained buried in the rubble, many of the doctors, rescue squads, fire fighters and dog handlers who had converged on the ravaged cities of Leninakan and Spitak from around the globe began to head home last week. Ryzhkov, who spent 13 days in the area as head of a special Politburo commission supervising the relief efforts, offered a grim tally before he returned to Moscow. The number of dead, he reported, was certain to exceed 55,000. Relief workers had rescued 15,300, while 514,000 had been left homeless by the quake...
...task of reconstruction may pose even greater challenges for President Mikhail Gorbachev. The Soviet leader has kept such a low profile since cutting short his journey abroad to fly to the earthquake zone that he seemed all but eclipsed by Ryzhkov in news reports. Gorbachev may have good reasons for turning the reconciliation work in Armenia over to others. His prestige there . has plummeted since Moscow refused to recognize Armenian claims to Nagorno- Karabakh, a predominantly Armenian enclave in neighboring Azerbaijan that has been the focus of ethnic strife for the past ten months...