Word: tretyakov
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...months ago, I met a Russian lawyer in New York who I asked for suggestions about what I should do during my semester in Moscow. Rather than giving me the usual guidebook trash about the Kremlin and the Tretyakov Gallery, he instead told me, in the imperative tone of a Russian speaking English, "You will go to the Hungry Duck Bar, you will drink and meet girls, you will dance on the bar, you will have a good time...
...communist idea in our country is quickly becoming part of the past," says Vitali Tretyakov, editor of the reform newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta. "It offers nothing that will improve people's lives...
...recently assigned him the thankless agricultural portfolio. But Yeltsin has stopped short of trying to oust Rutskoi, possibly because he considers it wiser to tolerate a rebellious Vice President than to have him lead an opposition campaign. "Rutskoi can only form a viable party if he resigns," says Tretyakov. As if preparing for such a move, Rutskoi has lately been sounding nationalist themes along with his economic critiques...
...fact, a second rumor was circulating in Moscow last week of an imminent purge of the party's ruling Politburo. The most frequently cited name was that of conservative Yegor Ligachev, who came under harsh attack in the pages of the weekly Moscow News. Deputy editor in chief Vitali Tretyakov lambasted Ligachev for supporting "the most unhealthy elements in socialism" and proposing solutions that come "not from the achievements but the mistakes of the past...
...accident that Gorbachev permits Boris Yeltsin -- the purged Politburo member turned populist -- to attack him from the left, while hard- liner Yegor Ligachev snipes at him from the right. Still, Gorbachev is careful not to get too far ahead of his comrades. As the Soviet editor Vitali Tretyakov has written, Gorbachev has a "subtle perception of the balance of economic and political variables not only today but ((an appreciation of where)) this balance will be . . . tomorrow and what must be done to forestall a rolling back ((caused)) by too abrupt an advance." Thus, at recent party and government meetings, Gorbachev...