Word: yevgeni
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...late for that. The incredible has become the inevitable. The Baltic states are gone; Ukraine and several other republics are going, and there is probably no stopping them. What one of Gorbachev's advisers, Yevgeni Primakov, calls a "unified economic space" is a lost cause, at least during the coming phase. The U.S.S.R. is, and always has been, a unified economic disaster area, and that, not ethnicity, is the main reason so many of those 280 million people want out. The U.S.S.R. has to go much further in falling apart before the pieces will have the incentive to reconstitute themselves...
...spelled them out, much less introduced them. Meanwhile, his government and the Russian parliament have been unable to agree on whether to postpone local elections now scheduled for Dec. 8, and have left the jobs of prime minister and chairman of parliament vacant. "Russia's government is paralyzed," said Yevgeni Saburov, announcing his resignation as economic minister in early October...
...U.S.S.R. is itself a Third World country, appealing for American largesse. The new chief of the foreign branch of the KGB, Yevgeni Primakov, even offered last week to engage in joint ventures with...
...eager than the Democratic Party to switch massive resources from the defense establishment to the civilian economy. Deputy Defense Minister Pavel Grachev told a parliamentary committee last week that the armed forces might be cut almost in half, to 2 million to 2.5 million people, by 1994. His boss, Yevgeni Shaposhnikov, later said firm plans call for mustering out only 700,000 of the present roughly 4 million. But he added that "further cuts are not excluded depending on the military- political situation in the world" -- presumably meaning, in part, what the U.S. does...
Last week President Mikhail Gorbachev took yet another chop at the monster. He appointed his close adviser Yevgeni Primakov to head the foreign intelligence division, which will become a separate organization...