Word: vadim
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...Korean War and World War II? Over the years, reports have surfaced that some of the 8,177 men missing in Korea and significant numbers of the 78,000 soldiers unaccounted for in Europe wound up in the Soviet Union. POW/MIA organizations see positive signs in the appointment of Vadim Bakatin as head of the KGB. Bakatin is a reformer who, as Interior Minister, pledged to search secret files that are believed to exist on misplaced Americans...
Even the indomitable Yeltsin reportedly had a moment of irresolution. On Monday morning he hurried to the Russian republic headquarters -- nicknamed the White House because of its marble facade -- and was quickly joined by other coup opponents. One of them, former Soviet Interior Minister Vadim Bakhatin, says they urged Yeltsin to proclaim himself in command of all army and KGB units on Russian republic soil. Bakhatin recounts that Yeltsin was reluctant; he feared that such an order would split the army and perhaps start a bloody civil war. Bakhatin and others, however, convinced Yeltsin that if no one exercising constitutional...
...actions of its disgraced chief, Vladimir Kryuchkov, as was another pillar of power, the army. Once the plot had unraveled, the agency released a statement declaring that "KGB servicemen have nothing in common with illegal actions by the group of adventurists." After a bewildering two-day shuffle of leaders, Vadim Bakatin, a liberal who was Gorbachev's Interior Minister until his dismissal last December, was appointed the KGB's new chief. He is expected to move decisively in cleaning up the agency...
...crew of the nuclear missile cruiser Kirov that he would do everything possible to improve their living conditions. Meanwhile, former Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov toured the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, lending a sympathetic ear to the problems of defense workers at a chemical factory. Back in Moscow Kremlin adviser Vadim Bakatin talked to cossack leaders about what he called his "common sense" politics...
...which he hopes to ram through the Congress of People's Deputies, that would further strengthen presidential authority. He announced plans to form civilian vigilante groups to combat black markets and profiteering, and put the KGB in charge of monitoring the distribution of foreign food. Most striking, he sacked Vadim Bakatin, the moderate Interior Minister, and replaced him with a two-man team: Boris Pugo, former chief of the Latvian KGB, as minister; and General Boris Gromov, an officer often said to favor a military coup (he denies it furiously), as Pugo's deputy...