Word: vladimir
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Until this year, it was the Soviet Union that most opposed German unification; now Moscow sees Germany as an economic life raft. Actually, says Vladimir Shenayev, deputy director of the Soviet Institute of Europe, "we understood that solving this question was in our interest long before we made it public." According to Shenayev, Moscow wanted to get out from under the cost of maintaining its army in East Germany but had to figure a way to get the Western allies to withdraw as well...
...Vladimir Lukin, a Yeltsin ally in the Russian parliament, told last week's conference, "Vladivostok's biggest secret is that there should be no secrets here." Local citizens applauded vigorously, but the few uniformed officers in attendance scowled in silence...
...Last week, while a pinafored band practiced The Stars and Stripes Forever in Revolution Square, Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze was a few blocks away, addressing a conference of about 100 experts on Asia from 19 countries. "Not bad for what is still officially classified as a closed city," remarked Vladimir Kuznetsov, the provincial governor...
...Supreme Soviet, Vladimir Lopatin, a young Deputy and major in the naval forces, has taken up the cause. He has drafted a challenging 15-page reform plan calling for a phased transition to a professional army while permitting the republics to set up their own corps in the interim. Defense Minister Dimitri Yazov has categorically rejected these proposals, arguing that a smaller all-volunteer army would be too expensive and too risky in a country with more then 37,000 miles of borders to defend. But Lopatin has already begun to attract followers. The young officer's feisty attacks...
Ivashko has been described in the unofficial Ukrainian press as looking more like "a balding accountant in a collective farm than a man who manages people's destinies" -- but appearances are obviously deceiving. When Ukrainian party boss Vladimir Shcherbitsky, a Brezhnev-era holdover, refused to be dislodged from his post, Moscow eased Ivashko, an ethnic Ukrainian, into the job of second secretary in 1988. Within a year Ivashko had replaced Shcherbitsky...