Word: yevgeny
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will require a leader respected within and outside the ranks. Shevardnadze's political reputation is virtually spotless, and his non-Russian background -- he was born in the Georgian republic -- may help keep independence-minded party members from deserting. And who would take Shevardnadze's place? Experts are watching Yevgeni Primakov, 60, who has been an important player on Gorbachev's foreign policy team since 1985; his was the new face at the table at last week's summit...
...already upset about "losing" Eastern Europe. Now it looked as though Soviet power might be humiliated even within the borders of the U.S.S.R. Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, Gorbachev's personal military adviser, bluntly said that no setback would be more galling than "seeing our East German allies defect to NATO." Yevgeni Primakov, one of Gorbachev's closest associates on the Presidential Council, agreed in a conversation a few weeks ago: "A united Germany in NATO is something we just can't swallow...
...many Communist nobles are loath to surrender their deserts. Conservative Politburo member Yegor Ligachev once drew hoots of derision when he responded to complaints of inequality by saying, "The party worker has ! only one privilege: to be in front, to struggle for the party's policies." Junior Politburo member Yevgeni Primakov got a bigger sneer when he argued in the Congress of People's Deputies that the rewards of being a party peer were in some ways a burden. During the hot summers, he complained, the chauffeur- driven black cars turned into sweatboxes...