Word: yevgeni
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sure, pluralism in the Soviet Union brought out the worst in the army. Senior officers grumbled publicly about reform, and some called for the use of an iron fist. Yet when the crunch came, the army and many of its leaders, including the new Minister of Defense, General Yevgeni Shaposhnikov, stayed on the sidelines. Thus the Soviet army still has a chance to find a place in a stable and democratic successor to the communist Soviet Union. If that is to happen, personnel changes are not enough. A stable democracy needs sturdy institutions, not just charismatic personalities...
...under the control of the regular army and its governing collegium was dismissed. Remaining bosses of the agency that for decades terrorized millions of Soviet citizens were put on notice that they would themselves be investigated to determine their roles, if any, in the coup. New Defense Minister Yevgeni Shaposhnikov had earlier pledged to remove most of the ministry's collegium, its top leadership...
...Moiseyev, 52, played a role ambiguous enough to let Gorbachev name him acting Defense Minister shortly after the coup's collapse. That decision alarmed those who expected the reinstated President to clean house. Under pressure from Yeltsin, Gorbachev replaced Moiseyev one day later with an unambiguous reformer: Colonel General Yevgeni Shaposhnikov, 49, the commander of the air force who had refused to support the coup...
Officials in the Soviet advance party were still talking in ominously demanding terms when they landed in London before the summit. Gorbachev's personal envoy, Yevgeni Primakov, told British Prime Minister John Major that Moscow expected "grants, debt relief, investment." If they were not forthcoming, Primakov warned reporters, Gorbachev's position might be endangered and there would be "a risk of social uprising, of civil war." Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Shcherbakov claimed that "there could be turmoil in the whole world...
...again, off-again course of reform in the U.S.S.R. is no more certain in the future. Gorbachev said as much in Oslo, advising the West that "it would be self-deluding" to expect the Soviet Union to copy its system. One of his closest advisers, Yevgeni Primakov, a member of the Soviet Union's Security Council, said in an interview that Moscow frowns on aid that is "tied to specific requirements...