Word: shakhnazarov
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late as 4 p.m. Sunday, working at his Crimean vacation retreat at Foros on the speech he intended to give at the treaty signing, Gorbachev telephoned Georgi Shakhnazarov, an aide and friend, who was vacationing nearby. They chatted briefly; Shakhnazarov heard nothing to indicate that his boss was in any way troubled. Less than an hour later, however, at 10 minutes to 5, the head of Gorbachev's security guards entered the President's office and, as Gorbachev later recounted the story, announced that "a group of people" was demanding to see him. Who were they, asked Gorbachev...
...open question whether he will be able to deploy them. He is heavily dependent on the negotiations between Gorbachev's central government and nine of the 15 Soviet republics for a new treaty replacing the one that formed the Soviet Union in 1922. In those talks, says Georgi Shakhnazarov, an adviser to Gorbachev, "we are encountering the same problems the Americans faced 200 years ago" -- and occasionally seeking guidance from the same sources. At one point, addressing representatives of the republics, Gorbachev read excerpts from an Alexander Hamilton essay in The Federalist Papers to back up his advocacy...
...well. And even if the President could bring himself to accept a little secession, the army and KGB would not. Now that he has been deserted by the reformers, he must rely on the men in uniform if he wants to stay in power. One of his advisers, Georgi Shakhnazarov, warned that if Gorbachev gave in to separatists he would be overthrown and replaced by a military dictatorship...
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