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  • The Justice Minister, Yury Kalmykov, an ethnic Cherkess, expressed reservations and resigned soon afterwards.

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  • Sources: 1993: VCIOM: Yury Levada, Nashi desyat let: itogi i problemy, www.levada.ru/levadaocherki.html, 248.

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  • Dmitry “was drunk with the air of freedom that, as it seemed to us, then reigned,” recalled his more politically conservative teacher Yury Tolstoy.

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  • Another, the investigative reporter Yury Shchekochikhin, died three months later, apparently killed by a rare poison.

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  • I include in this list the big-name cases familiar to Western readers of Anna Politkovskaya, Yury Shchekochikhin, Nataliya Estemirova, and Paul Klebnikov, although in the last case the killer seems more likely to have come from the worlds of business or crime.

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  • Yury Skokov, an industrialist, was thought to be next in line.

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  • The courage and commitment of reporters such as Anna Politkovskaya and Yury Shchekochikhin command admiration.

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  • Primakov had joined Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov to lead a new party of regional governors called Fatherland–All Russia.

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  • The next year, he laid flowers at the grave of Yury Andropov, the longtime KGB head and Soviet leader, and mounted a plaque outside the Lubyanka to honor him.

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  • The most professional and widely respected was the All-Union Center for Public Opinion Research VCIOM headed by the sociologists Tatyana Zaslavskaya and later Yury Levada.

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