This residence outside Moscow, where republican leaders met briefly in spring 1991 and reached a consensus on future union, became as famous as Camp David in the USA.
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Yeltsin's three-week long 'voluntary exile in Foros' (Gorbachev's spa-prison) resulted in a government and parliamentary crisis and broken consensus on economic reform.
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The urgency of this 'homecoming' can hardly be better illustrated than by the decision of the Azerbaijan parliament to 'nationalize' military equipment on its territory. The ground cited for this claim was the neutrality of the Soviet Army in the conflict with Armenia.
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A good example of such a mistake can be the statement of President Yeltsin's press secretary two weeks after the coup. It was mentioned that Russia could not recognize the inter-republican borders as settled once and forever, and reserved the right to raise border questions on a bilateral basis.
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A more detailed expression of the author's point on nuclear matters can be found in the article 'Nuclear Burden for Russia', published in the weekly New Times, 1991, no. 42.
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It was hardly a coincidence that President N. Nazarbaev chose the opportunity of US Secretary of State James Baker's visit to Alma Ata to proclaim his nuclear ambitions.
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From this point of view at least one rational explanation can be found for nominating General Lobov as Chief of General Staff: he is definitely unable to organize another coup.
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These irrelevant guidelines were presented at the second seminar on military doctrines, held in Vienna in October 1991. According to them, the most radical step for the next few years would be the 0.7 million reduction in the total strength of the Soviet Army, while in expert circles the proposal for one million cuts a year during 1992, 1993 and 1994 was considered modest.
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According to the latest Ukrainian military doctrine, the republic is to deploy a 400,000-strong Army, Navy and Air Force.
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The idea of the disintegration of totalitarian institutions as a result of the European integrational trend was put forward also by Karsten Voigt during the second Soviet-German Public Forum held in Moscow in October 1991.
