Word: umalatova
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Apparently determined to put the idea to a test, a communist hard-liner named Sazhi Umalatova stepped to the podium almost as soon as the Congress of People's Deputies opened last week. Charging that Gorbachev had lost the "moral right to lead the country," she moved a vote of no confidence in him. It failed, 1,288 to 426, but the spectacle was deeply unsettling to Eduard Shevardnadze, who asked in his resignation speech, "Is this normal...
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