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...Zhirinovsky: If his name were not Zhirinovsky, it could be Ivanov, Petrov or Sokolov. For a huge country like Russia, it's almost impossible not to have someone like Zhirinovsky emerge in a transitional period. I know Russia very well. Unless something totally unforeseen occurs, Zhirinovsky won't be able to control Russian society completely. How can Zhirinovsky dominate the thinking of Russia's intellectuals...
...cloaking the individual responsibilities of ruling Politburo members in secrecy. "We don't know the specific matters each Politburo member is personally responsible for," he declared. In fact, last week's conference produced one important new disclosure along those very lines. At a press conference, Byelorussian Party Chief Yefrem Sokolov confirmed earlier rumors that Politburo Member Yakovlev, a strong Gorbachev supporter, has become chief overseer of party ideology, replacing Yegor K. Ligachev, who is thought to be the Soviet leader's major rival...
...Kremlin would like to improve relations with China as well as with the six member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Singapore, Brunei, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia). Moscow has appointed one of its ablest younger diplomats, Oleg Sokolov, as ambassador to Manila. Sokolov has been doing his best to fan opposition to the strategically crucial U.S. naval and air bases in the Philippines. But Soviet diplomacy will not fare well in Beijing and with ASEAN so long as the Kremlin's ally in the area, Viet Nam, is hunkered down in Kampuchea and intimidating other neighbors...
...before the plenum by taking swift action against the military in the wake of West German Pilot Mathias Rust's spectacular landing just outside Red Square. When the Hamburg teenager's single-engine Cessna penetrated some 400 miles of Soviet airspace with impunity, Gorbachev immediately sacked Defense Minister Sergei Sokolov and Air Defense Chief Alexander Koldunov. In addition to giving the country an object lesson in the personal accountability of those in power -- and demonstrating the military's subservience to the political leadership -- Gorbachev seized the occasion to place a reform-minded ally, General of the Army Dmitri Yazov...
...regarded as Gorbachev allies. Most notable was the elevation of Propaganda Chief Alexander Yakovlev, 63, who has overseen the Soviet media campaign to promote reform. In addition, General Dmitri Yazov, 63, the new Defense Minister, was made a non-voting member of the Politburo. His predecessor, Marshal Sergei Sokolov, 75, was dismissed in disgrace last month over the military's failure to prevent the landing of a West German light plane near Red Square...