Word: sobchak
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Dates: during 1989-1989
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...blockade of Armenia. But after a dramatic all- night debate, legislators in the Supreme Soviet did what not so long ago was unthinkable. They rebuffed the strike proposal as "unconstitutional" and voted instead to put strict limits only on work stoppages that affect critical industries. Said Leningrad Deputy Anatoli Sobchak, a reformist: "We just spent a couple days in the school of democracy. And all the talk led somewhere...
...group's members insist they are not so much an opposition faction as ardent advocates of perestroika eager to speed its implementation. Said Leningrad's representative Anatoli Sobchak: "I am not a member of the opposition; I am a supporter of the struggle for a normal economic and political life in our country." But there is a hint of criticism of current as well as past party leaders. President Mikhail Gorbachev, said historian Yuri Afanasyev, an elected official of the group, "is justifiably regarded as the man who launched reform. But the time has passed when he can successfully remain...