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...criticism of the election was that in 384 of the 1,500 districts, party hacks ran unopposed. Those who ran alone, however, still had to collect 50% of the vote. The most prominent victim: Yuri Solovyov, the Communist Party boss of the Leningrad region and a nonvoting member of the Politburo. Though Solovyov ran unopposed, almost two-thirds of the voters crossed out his name, and he lost. The mayor of Kiev also ran unopposed and lost. So did that city's , Communist Party boss...
THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE edited by Yuri Afanasayev (Progress Publishers, 1988). The definitive, argument-provoking collection of essays by such high priests of perestroika as Andrei Sakharov, economist Tatyana Zaslavskaya and Novy Mir editor in chief Sergei Zalygin...
JUST A COUPLE OF WORDS IN HONOR OF MR. DE MOLIERE. First produced 16 years ago by Anatoli Efros, this program based on Mikhail Bulgakov's works fell into disfavor because Culture Ministry bureaucrats disapproved of director Efros' and leading actor Yuri Lyubimov's liberal views...
...expulsions that left officials on both sides of the superpower divide grumbling, the Soviets and the Americans each ousted a military attache on charges of espionage. The first blow was struck by the U.S. two weeks ago, when it expelled Lieut. Colonel Yuri Pakhtusov from the Soviet embassy in Washington. State Department and FBI officials accused Pakhtusov of having received classified information about computer-security programs. Pakhtusov allegedly got the documents from an American employee of a U.S. company that does business with the Government...
...predictable functioning of the capitalist law of supply and demand. Soviet salaries have risen an average of roughly 8% over the past three years. Meanwhile, production of big-ticket consumer items like refrigerators and automobiles has been increasing at a much lower rate. As a result, says Yuri Luzhkov, chairman of the state committee responsible for Moscow's food supply, "people are investing their new money in food" -- and, in the process, creating the current spate of product shortages. Jan Vanous, research director of PlanEcon, a Washington-based think tank, agrees that Soviet supply and demand has gone seriously...