Word: yevgeny
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...Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel so far has resisted pressure to intervene, but the mere suggestion of a NATO member becoming embroiled in the conflict helped catapult Karabakh to the top of the agenda at the U.N. and other international forums. The military commander of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Yevgeni Shaposhnikov, warned that armed involvement by foreign nations could transform the Karabakh conflict into World...
...along carrying the briefcase of electronic controls that Americans call the nuclear football -- the ignition key, in effect, for nuclear war. The former Soviet Union has three operational sets of such devices: Yeltsin has one, which can be used only in conjunction with another set controlled by Defense Minister Yevgeni Shaposhnikov. A third system is usually held by the Defense Ministry and can replace either of the other two. But after last year's aborted coup, Western intelligence lost sight of the third football, and officials were forced to ponder the implications of a nuclear fumble. Now the intelligence boys...
...MILITARY. All opposition figures have supported the military in its complaints: low pay, poor housing and uncertainty brought on by the disintegration of the union. The army remains a powerful wild card. While Marshal Yevgeni Shaposhnikov, military commander of the new Commonwealth of Independent States, has assured both Yeltsin and the West that the army will not take part in any coup, some officers have suggested that they should take the initiative to "save" the country. Aware of the threat, Yeltsin has heeded the complaints: in January he raised officers' salaries...
...wonder some experts in Moscow are predicting that the ruble will soon join the Soviet Union on history's trash heap. In an interview with the newspaper Rabochaya Tribuna, economist Yevgeni Petrakov foresaw the "downfall" of the ruble within several months and urged joint action by members of the Commonwealth of Independent States to ease the crisis. Other leading experts doubt that monetary reform by itself can revitalize the economy. "The main task now is not to manipulate finances," Oleg Yashin, first vice president of the Savings Bank of Russia, told Pravda. Rather, he declared, "it is to enable every...
Kravchuk and I agreed that everything will be decided mutually and in stages. I've just sent Defense Minister Yevgeni Shaposhnikov to Kiev to work out procedures for the transition. In fact, nothing has changed so far as the armed forces are concerned. You Americans have nothing to worry about...