Word: vladimir
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...part of the continuing fallout from the Oct. 11 crash of the ruble, Russian President Boris Yeltsin shuffled his economic team, appointing as Finance Minister Vladimir Panskov, a Soviet-era budget specialist who had been briefly imprisoned on bribery charges that were later dropped. Alexander Shokhin, Economics Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, resigned, saying, "The economy is becoming a hostage to politics." Yeltsin then promoted reformer Anatoli Chubais to first Deputy Prime Minister, charged with overseeing the ministries of Economics and Finance...
...following in the iconoclastic footsteps of his father, played host to one of the world's prickliest politicians this week: Russian hypernationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky. No meeting between the two was reported, but the heavy-drinking bad boy Vlad and Kim, reportedly a dedicated party animal who loves Cognac, seem to see eye to eye: Zhirinovsky carefully had nothing but good things to say about Kim in the North Korean press...
...were told in Moscow that it would be an equal exchange,' said Sergei V. Kalashnikov, a member of the Liberal Democrat party, which is led by ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky. "It seems some people here consider us to be students, that we come here to be taught...
...police seized the 130-lb. case emitting gamma radiation. Until a specialized laboratory can examine the material, the , police cannot be sure what it is or where it was stolen from, but they believe it is dangerous -- and illicit. This is the second major case of nuclear theft that Vladimir Kolesnik, the deputy chief of St. Petersburg's organized-crime department, has thwarted since last May. "The problem," he says, "is that security standards have slackened, and virtually everybody who has access to nuclear materials could steal something...
...their own, as well as countries such as Iran and Libya that would like to, might begin to look seriously at what is on offer in the new marketplace. "There is already far more bomb-quality nuclear material in Germany than the authorities can imagine," said Russian atomic expert Vladimir Chernosenko, who was one of the officials charged with cleaning up the Chernobyl nuclear accident. "If economic conditions in Russia do not improve soon, there will be an outflow organized from the highest echelons...