Word: vyachelsav
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...hardfisted style of leadership, surrounding himself with ever more authoritarian aides. Last week, after bragging about how much he has done to promote a "genuinely free" media, he fired the head of Russia's state-owned television network. (The station, it seemed, was engaged in too much muckraking.) Vyachelsav Kostikov, who once served Yeltsin as press secretary, said that for the President, "power is his ideology, his friend, his concubine and his mistress...
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