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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jordanian capital of Amman as a personal representative of President Mikhail Gorbachev. Ostensibly his main purpose in Iraq was to arrange for the departure of 5,174 Soviet citizens, presumably including some military advisers, whose continued presence has been an irritant to the U.S. But Gorbachev's press secretary Vitali Ignatenko, visiting the U.S., spoke to TIME about a possible Middle East conference in which "all the problems of the region could be resolved as a package, including the Palestinian problem." That is definitely not a message the U.S. wants Saddam to hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: The Waiting Game | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

...rewards of being a team player -- without cutting all ties to Iraq. Moscow could serve as a potential mediator, and the Soviets do not want to sacrifice all their independent influence in the region -- or see the U.S. become the only outside player -- once the crisis is over. As Vitali Naumkin, deputy director of Moscow's Institute of Oriental Studies, explains, "The Soviet Union has a different role to play. It still has a credit of trust with some regional powers that will not deal with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: The Tortoise and the Hare | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...notoriously conservative military. Shchit's members have demanded that Communist Party committees be removed from military units so that all political parties can compete equally for support among the troops. "Our goal is to make sure that the army is never again used against its own people," says Vitali Urazhtsev, 46, Shchit's founder. The group claims to have 3,000 members in military installations around the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Heading for a Showdown | 8/6/1990 | See Source »

...citizens and their leaders. Faced with troop withdrawals in Eastern Europe, budget cuts at home and increasing criticism in the press, the 4 million-man armed forces have been plunging rapidly in both public esteem and institutional authority. Meeting with TIME's editors in New York City last week, Vitali Korotich, editor of the weekly magazine Ogonyok and a member of parliament, observed, "After the party bureaucrats, the military is the most unhappy part of our society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Red Army Blues | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Two Hats Are Better than One | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

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