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...teams. Prices are skyrocketing; foreign investors are gun-shy as severe shortages of gasoline, meat and sugar spread. The President's move was "absolutely illogical," said Tymoshenko in a televised speech, blaming the crises on Yushchenko's cronies. The Cabinet implosion was triggered by the dramatic resignation of Olexander Zinchenko, the President's Chief of Staff, who furiously denounced as corrupt Yushchenko's top aide Olexander Tretyakov and Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Petro Poroshenko, among others. At a press conference, Zinchenko pointedly questioned the origins of Poroshenko's business empire, allegedly worth $350 million. "Bribery...
...other subversive characters was strengthened last week. ¶The U.S. delegation to the U.N. announced that it had requested the dismissal of a high Russian staff member for attempted espionage. The accused: Nikolai Skvortsov, 39, special assistant to U.N.'s Assistant Secretary General for Security Council Affairs, Constantin Zinchenko. Skvortsov never seemed to do much work; he just spent an unusual amount of time chatting with non-Russians. The State Department learned a year ago that Skvortsov was engaged in espionage. While Skvortsov was visiting Moscow last summer, the U.S. told Secretary General Trygve Lie that it hoped...
...head of the press section of the Foreign Ministry, able, thirtyish Constantine Zinchenko is the man who accredits or bars foreign correspondents who seek entry to Moscow, though the MGB (formerly NKVD) are finally responsible for keeping the foreign press colony so small. From their first day in Moscow, when they formally present their credentials to him, correspondents must deal with Zinchenko if they want interviews, transportation, stoves for their rooms, extra food, or transfer from one Metropole Hotel room to another...
Around his home office, Zinchenko alternates between his London wardrobe and the grey, postmanlike uniform of the Foreign Ministry. He and his pretty wife have attended small parties at A.P. Correspondent Eddy Gilmore's house. There, and at embassy affairs, guests know him as a good conversationalist, a chain smoker, a man who carries his vodka well. But he may drink with a reporter one day, baffle him by ignoring him when in official company the next. Last year he escorted Mrs. Winston Churchill on her Russian tour, impressed her as a nice young...
...correspondents, he never makes a promise, but always says "I'll see what I can do." They tell a story, possibly apocryphal, to show that Zinchenko has a sense of humor. An American newsman in Moscow was giving him a sales talk on freedom: "Why, back home," he said, "I can march into the White House at any time, shout 'Down with Truman!' and then march out. Nothing would happen to me." Grinned Zinchenko: "I can do that, too. I can march into the Kremlin at any time, shout 'Down with Truman!' and nothing will...