Gennadi Gerasimov, Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman said that the Soviet Union had no connection with Bloch (AP reports).

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But court-appointed defense attorneys Nikolai Gerasimov and Kirill Goncharov petitioned for the trial to be put off until May so that they could study the case files.

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On 26 June 1990, for example, Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov said that if the USSR gets financial assistance from the European Community, it will use the aid to pay off chronic Soviet foreign payment arrearages.

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