Word: yabloko
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...parliamentary campaign got off to a stumbling start last week when the Central Electoral Commission refused to register the Yabloko bloc of economist Grigori Yavlinksy, citing a technicality: the group had violated election laws by dropping six names from its list of more than 200 candidates without supporting documents. The surprise decision to exclude the only reformist group in the present parliament with a serious chance to do well in the election set off an immediate firestorm of protest. Yavlinksy claimed that officials "in the top echelons of power" were taking advantage of the President's illness to settle political...
Yavlinsky is head of the Yabloko Bloc, a democratic reform party. Political pollsters in Russia currently consider him the leading challenger to Boris Yeltsin in the next presidential election, scheduled...
...Agat in large quantities, and its quality is still suspect. Leo Bores, an eye surgeon and computer buff from Scottsdale, Ariz., tried out the Agat on a visit to the Soviet Union and wrote about his findings in last November's Byte magazine. Bores, who facetiously dubbed Agat the Yabloko (Russian for apple), discovered that the Soviet machine performs some tasks 30% slower than an Apple. The Soviets would not be able to export Agat to the West, he says, "even if they gave it away." Stephen Bryen, a top Defense Department expert on technology trade, claims that the disk...