Word: vertushka
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will call Moscow," the factory manager said, glancing at the yellow telephone on his desk. The special vertushka phone network still connects industrial managers across the 11 time zones of the former Soviet Union with the new nomenklatura -- the unofficial network of bureaucrats, former party elites and military officers -- neatly bypassing political leaders in Moscow who might attempt to stand in the way of deals such as this...
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