Word: successors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Where that 400 figure comes from is a mystery to me. But I can say that I did not pass on a single one to the KGB, nor did my successor. The head of the intelligence service in the Soviet Union would not want to continue any form of contact. The risk would be too great. One cannot rule out, however, that some adventurers might try to profit from their knowledge...
...appeal to make the speech less provocative. In the version Yeltsin finally delivered, he announced a new round of radical economic reforms, virtually dissolved most of the Soviet ministries and nominated himself to the vacant post of Russian prime minister. But he stopped just short of proclaiming Russia the successor state to the U.S.S.R., effective immediately...
...silently to pressure from Washington. "He is ready to be critical of unreasonable demands," says Seizaburo Sato, a political scientist at the University of Tokyo. As Trade Minister in 1970, Miyazawa broke off talks over a textile agreement because he felt the U.S. was demanding too much. His successor completed the deal -- by giving Washington exactly what it wanted...
...seem to undermine the emotional aura that would be the new czar's chief benefit. But that aura can coexist with practical considerations. Shakespeare's tragedy of kingship, Richard II, contrasts Richard, an immoral and incapable king, yet one who believes he was divinely appointed, with his deposer and successor, Henry Bolingbroke, who, for all his cunning and competence, is haunted by the knowledge that he is a usurper. Shakespeare presents the shift from Richard to Henry as a changing of the guard, a clean break from one style of kingship to another. And yet the "divinity ((that)) doth hedge...
...should play in a new union of the republics. Vice President Rutskoi denounced the new economic treaty as "banditry" that would allow the other republics to treat Russia as a "milch cow," then changed his mind when Ukraine pulled out. Burbulis has insisted that Russia should proclaim itself the "successor state" to the old Soviet Union and take over the institutions of central government. That has only intensified other republics' fear of being swallowed up into a new Russian empire...