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  Dmitry Yazov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dmitri Timofeyevich Yazov (Язов, Дмитрий Тимофеевич in Russian) (born November 8, 1923) was the last Marshal of the Soviet Union to be appointed before the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In 1979-1980, Yazov was a commander of the Central Army Group.
During the August Coup of 1991, Yazov was a member of the State Emergency Committee, for which he was prosecuted and acquitted in 1994.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dmitriy_Yazov   (169 words)

  
 ...: Barikādes 1991 :... -> Barricades history - Chronology
Soviet Defense Minister Dmitriy Yazov issues an order which says that the armed forces have authority to determine what kinds of monuments can be set up in the Soviet republics.
Defense Minister Dmitriy Yazov admits that the Soviet armed forces have bombed monuments in the Baltic States.
On Mikhail Gorbachev's instructions, Dmitriy Yazov orders special military units to enter Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, the stated aim being to ensure that the military draft proceeds properly.
www.barikades.lv /en/3_2.php   (2262 words)

  
 Dmitriy Yazov - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
Dmitry Timofeyevich Yazov (Язов, Дмитрий Тимофеевич in Russian) (born 1924), Russian military figure, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1990).
During the August Coup of 1991, Yazov was a member of the State Emergency Committee, for which he would be prosecuted and sentenced.
He was freed by the amnesty of the State Duma in 1994.
www.music.us /education/D/Dmitriy-Yazov.htm   (306 words)

  
 George Bush Presidential Library and Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The President met with Soviet Minister of Defense Dmitriy Yazov for about 30 minutes and exchanged views with him on issues of U.S.-Soviet security and arms control.
General Yazov is here to meet with Defense Secretary Cheney as a part of a continuing program of contacts between military officials of the two countries.
General Yazov discussed Soviet views of the problems facing the two sides in arms control.
bushlibrary.tamu.edu /research/papers/1989/89100305.html   (168 words)

  
 Kim Jong-Il won't become another Milosevic: ex-Soviet defence chief
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il is determined not to follow the bitter fate of the former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic in facing a US-led military attack, a former Soviet defence minister said in a magazine interview.
Dmitriy Yazov made the remarks in reference to North Korea's nuclear ambitions in an interview published in the latest edition of Sapio, a fortnightly Japanese international affairs magazine published this week.
"Kim Jong-Il once told me, 'We will not follow in Yugoslavia's steps'," said Yazov, who is reputed to be closely acquainted with Kim after seven meetings with him.
www.spacewar.com /2003-a/030529100432.32htoa97.html   (423 words)

  
 Gang of Eight (Soviet Union) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vladimir Kryuchkov, head of the KGB; has since written his memoirs
Dmitriy Yazov, Soviet Defense Minister; now an advisor to an arms exporter
Valentin Pavlov, Soviet Prime Minister; eventually became a banker; died in 2003
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gang_of_Eight_(Soviet_Union)   (219 words)

  
 Chapter 3 -- Ratification Delayed
Defense Minister Yazov refused categorically to consider any changes to the Soviet position on the former TLE equipment assigned to naval and civil defense units.
That equipment, he asserted, might become part of a possible future treaty on conventional naval forces, but the Soviet military did not have to count it with the Soviet Union's TLE for the CFE Treaty.
Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Dmitriy Yazov meets with Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney.
www.fas.org /nuke/control/cfe/cfebook/ch3a.html   (2197 words)

  
 Soviet-Empire.com - Alternative History
The group that called itself the State Emergency Committee attempted to seize power in Moscow on August 19, one day before Gorbachev and a group of republic leaders had been due to sign the new union treaty.
The 'State Emergency Committee' including KGB chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov, Internal Affairs Minister Pugo, Defence Minister Dmitriy Yazov, and Prime Minister Pavlov announced that Gorbachev was ill and had been relieved of his state post as president, and they named Soviet Union vice president Gennadiy Yanayev as the acting president in his place.
The hardliners had the parliament building surrounded by the military but due to the botched way the operation was carried out communications lines to the building were not cut and the word was immediately out about what was happening.
www.soviet-empire.com /ussr/library/other/alt_history.php   (891 words)

  
 Publius Pundit - Blogging the democratic revolution
The real reason for the move was that Gorbachev and his counterparts in the Soviet Republics were to sign a new Union treaty the next day, thereby dissolving the Soviet Union.
The Committee’s membership consisted of KGB chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov, Internal Affairs Minister Boris Pugo, Defense Minister Dmitriy Yazov, and Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov.
Then Russian RSFR President Boris Yeltsin denounced the coup and his subsequent speech on the top of a tank in front of the Russian Parliament became a defining symbol for the Soviet Union’s implosion and the end of the Cold War.
www.publiuspundit.com /?p=2869   (1227 words)

  
 The Russian Military's Role in Politics - The Military and the Union Treaty - Notes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Several of the nine republics that did vote, including Russia and Ukraine, added questions designed to demonstrate public backing for republic autonomy.
Dmitriy Yazov, "With Your Yes Vote, You Vote For Renewed Union," Krasnaya zvezda, 16 March 1991, p.
In a 21 June 1991 interview, Yazov asserted that Alksnis "does not represent the Soviet Army." See Lidove Noviny, 24 June 1991, pp.
www.resdal.org /Archivo/nair-notes2.htm   (365 words)

  
 Soviet coup attempt of 1991   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Soviet Union vice president Gennady Yanayev was named acting president.
The committee's eight members included KGB chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov, Internal Affairs Minister Boris Pugo, Defense Minister Dmitriy Yazov, and Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov, all of whom had risen to their posts under Gorbachev.
Large public demonstrations against the coup leaders took place in Moscow and Leningrad, and divided loyalties in the Defense and security establishments prevented the armed forces from crushing the resistance that Russian SFSR President Boris Yeltsin led from the White House, Russia's parliament building.
soviet-coup-attempt-of-1991.iqnaut.net   (824 words)

  
 How long did it last -- National Organization for Women at UH
Soviet vice-president Gennadiy Yanayev was named acting president.
The committee's eight members included KGB chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov, Internal Affairs Minister Boris Pugo, Defense Minister Dmitriy Yazov, and Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov.
The coup dissolved due to large public demonstrations and the efforts of Boris Yeltsin who became the real power in Russia as a result.
www.voy.com /51664/27.html   (1908 words)

  
 Gateway To Russia - Article - North Korea reportedly agrees to further six-way talks in November
The Putin letter was delivered to Kim by Konstantin Pulikovskiy, Putin's representative to the Russian Far East, when he was invited to Pyongyang to attend North Korea's national day festivities.
Among other Russian dignitaries who was in North Korea for the national day festivities was Dmitriy Yazov, a former Soviet defence minister with close ties to the North Korean leadership dating back to the days when Kim Jong-il's father, the late Kim Il-sung, was the North Korean leader.
The Putin government apparently tapped these veteran Korea hands in Russia to get North Korea adopt a moderate stance on nuclear issues and to create the environment for the next round of six-nation talks.
www.gateway2russia.com /st/art_139709.php   (450 words)

  
 www.cyclingnews.com presents ...
In the women's 25 kms race Zhao Haijuan from China beat her compatriat by 36.46 seconds.
In the men's race, Mizbani Iranagh was just over 30 seconds ahead of professional Dmitriy Fofonov (Kazak) at the half distance checkpoint.
He finished up winning by just over that margin and did the 50 kms at an average speed o 47.41 km/h).
www.cyclingnews.com /results/1998/dec98/dec11.shtml   (1099 words)

  
 Foreign Military Studies Office Publications - THE RUSSIAN MILITARY AND THE 1995 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS: A PRIMER
Among the other prominent military men in the current Duma are: General-Lieutenant Viktor Ustinov, and General-Major Nikolay Stolyarov, both of the Duma Geopolitics Committee; Colonel General Dmitriy Volkongonov, who also serves as a national security advisor to the president; and Colonel- General German Titov (Russia's second cosmonaut) elected to the Duma from the Kolomenskiy Okrug.
Instructions from Defense Minister Grachev: In September Grachev instructed Lieutenant General Zdorikov (Chief of the Main Directorate on Personnel Policy and an MOD political worker) to organize the pre-election pursuit of deputies seats.
The latter includes among his "friends" the Russian Union of Reserve Officers, the Generals and Admirals Club, the Foundation for the Adaptation and Defense of Servicemen of Soldiers of the Fatherland, and the Association of Veterans of Intelligence, among others.
www.fas.org /nuke/guide/russia/agency/ruselec.htm   (3109 words)

  
 JRL #7148 - Marriage, Yushenkov, HIV, Frosty Friendship, Anti-American Attitudes, Russia & Saddam, Putin's Perfidy, ...
Further east, Russia's largest-circulation daily, Komsomolskaya Pravda, offered critiques of the U.S. military campaign by Marshal Dmitri Yazov, the former Soviet defense minister and key plotter of the 1991 Communist coup attempt.
That Yazov is not a big fan of the United States is not surprising.
Yet the expressions he applied to the Americans, such as "greedy militarists" and "ruthless invaders," were quite common for the mainstream Russian news media, particularly in the first days of the war.
www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/7148.htm   (12390 words)

  
 Russian August Coup with Vladimir Kryuchkov, Internal Affairs Minister Pugo, Defense Minister Dmitriy Yazov, and Prime ...
Russian August Coup with Vladimir Kryuchkov, Internal Affairs Minister Pugo, Defense Minister Dmitriy Yazov, and Prime Minister Pavlov on RussiansAbroad.com
Gorbachev hoped that he could at least hold the union together in a decentralized form.
Soviet Union vice president Gennadiy Yanayev was named acting president.
www.russiansabroad.com /russian_history_88.html   (820 words)

  
 Paradox Interactive Forums - Red Banner Flying - MDS2 Soviet AAR
They agreed that, after the Union Treaty was signed, Soviet KGB Chief Vladimir Kryuchkov, Minister of Defense Dmitri Yazov, and Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov would be replaced, and Nazarbayev would be appointed Prime Minister of the USSR.
In contrast to the reformers' lukewarm approach to the new treaty, the conservatives and hard-liners of the USSR, still strong within the CPSU and military establishment, were completely opposed to anything which might contribute to the weakening of the Soviet state.
Following the arrival of Gorbachev, Dmitriy Yazov and Vladimir Kryuchkov, the true leaders of the coup fled the Kremlin and after discovering all roads out of the city blocked fled to the KGB Lubyanka building, hoping to procure a helicopter.
forum.paradoxplaza.com /forum/showthread.php?t=247095   (4819 words)

  
 Dmitriy YAzov: __ NE VERYU V TAKIE «REFORMY»!
Dmitriy YAzov: __ NE VERYU V TAKIE «REFORMY»!
Predlozhil mne ego na post vmesto Vladislava Achalova — Dmitriy Semenovich Sukhorukov.
Dmitriy Timofeevich, vashi suzhdeniya interesny i tochny, obrashchaetsya li nyneshnee rukovodstvo armii i gosudarstva k vam, ishchet li sovetov, obobshchayut opyt?
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 The Communist Party of the Soviet Union Soviet Union Russian Russian...
Soviet vice-president Gennadiy Yanayev Gennadiy Yanayev was named acting president.
The committee's eight members included KGB KGB chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov Vladimir Kryuchkov, Internal Affairs Minister Boris Pugo Boris Pugo, Defense Minister Dmitriy Yazov Dmitriy Yazov, and Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov Valentin Pavlov.
The coup dissolved due to large public demonstrations and the efforts of Boris Yeltsin Boris Yeltsin who became the real power in Russia as a result.
www.biodatabase.de /CPSU   (4590 words)

  
 Prewar
At this point, the Politburo split into two informal factions.
The dominant faction, the "Accomodationists", lead by General Secretary Gorbachev and Defense Secretary Dmitriy Yazov, believed that only minor corrective action to increase the price of oil was needed.
This faction felt that the price of direct confrontation with the Western powers would be too costly, and that above all, relations with the United States must be preserved.
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 Foreign Military Studies Office Publications - The Caucasus Conflict and Russian Security: The Russian Armed Forces ...
Army morale was already weakened by infighting among generals over the army's role in Chechnya and by the negative reaction among the populace to the press coverage of the intervention.
Lieutenant General Leonid Ivashov, a dedicated communist who was in charge of cadres under former Defense Minister Yazov and now works in the Ministry of Defense, summarized his disgust with the army's performance (which he termed a disgrace) in the following manner:
To the leadership, it appeared that the Russian army had a sound plan, advancing on three axes and meeting at the Presidential Palace.
fmso.leavenworth.army.mil /documents/chechpt3.htm   (18873 words)

  
 The Daily Perspective - Today's News with Historical Perspective   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
On this date, a small cabal amongst them decides to act.
While Gorbachev vacations in the Crimea, a group of eight men - included KGB chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov, Internal Affairs Minister Boris Pugo, Defense Minister Dmitriy Yazov and Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov - attempt to seize power in Moscow.
The so-called State Emergency Committee confines Gorbachev to house arrest in the Crimea, announce to the world that he is ill and relieve him of his duties.
www.dailyperspective.com /Default.aspx?NLDate=8/18/2005   (3598 words)

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