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...threatening to go on strike, and even army officers grumble publicly about low living standards. While a record harvest lies rotting in the fields, bread -- that staple of Russian life -- has joined the growing list of scarce goods. Meanwhile, pressure mounts for the government of Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov to resign. Most worrisome of all for the Kremlin, the once monolithic Union of Soviet Socialist Republics seems ever closer to fragmenting into bits and pieces...
...loser last week was Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov, whose more conservative scheme for a gradual switch to a market economy -- to be achieved over a period of two years -- was rejected by parliament in June. According to rumors, Ryzhkov was so disappointed at being bypassed on the commission that he refused to sign the document that created...
...cushion the transition to a market economy. Popov and his city council have not managed basic reforms, but they represent a challenge to Gorbachev simply by being in a position to experiment. Popov is one of the founders of the progressive Interregional Group in parliament, and he has criticized Ryzhkov's reform plan as a "fiction" that would leave "the same whip and fist" in charge. He advocates eliminating most of the huge Moscow-based industrial ministries, along with large slices of the bureaucracy...
Sobchak, 53, was elected Mayor of Leningrad in May after reformers there mounted a draft. An expert on economic legislation, he is an influential member of the Supreme Soviet, where he has clashed bitterly with Prime Minister Ryzhkov. Yegor Ligachev is also one of his targets. Sobchak said of him last week that "yesterday his word was law; today it is nonsense." Sobchak belongs to the Interregional Group and is considered a radical, but a measured one. He argues that KGB leaders should be barred from political leadership and, perhaps tongue in cheek, that the party might have...
More defeats for Gorbachev and his reforms? Not necessarily. The Supreme Soviet may have done him a favor. He had given only tepid support to the program presented by Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov in late May; in fact, many Western experts believe Gorbachev had little to do with fine-tuning it. Almost immediately, the plan's half measures were attacked by conservatives and liberals alike. When the advance warning of price increases set off panic ( buying across the country, the Kremlin lost enthusiasm for the proposals...