It was fifty years ago today that Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin blasted off from a launch pad in the SovietUnionto bravely go where no man had gone before.
Not surprisingly, Germany has taken the lead among European countries in strongly opposing U.S. intentions togo public with a specific debt deferral plan for the former SovietUnion.
In short, I will argue that there is a better way togo in effecting our common objective of the genuine transformation of the SovietUnion namely through a decentralized, republic-by-republic trade strategy.
For reasons like those mentioned above, I believe some All-Union Soviet leaders possibly Gorbachev himself encouraged Yavlinsky togo public with an artificially low gold reserve figure hence the huge disparity in estimates which emerged virtually overnight.