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	Dmitry Yazov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dmitri Timofeyevich Yazov (Язов, Дмитрий Тимофеевич in Russian) (born November 11, 1924) 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 would be prosecuted and acquitted in 1994.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dmitriy_Yazov (123 words)

	Dmitriy Yazov - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		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.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Dmitri_Yazov (141 words)

	Dmitriy Yazov -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Dmitry Timofeyevich Yazov (Язов, Дмитрий Тимофеевич in (A native or inhabitant of Russia) Russian) (born 1924), Russian (The military forces of a nation) military figure, (Click link for more info and facts about Marshal of the Soviet Union) Marshal of the Soviet Union (1990).
		In 1979-1980, Yazov was a (A commissioned naval officer who ranks above a lieutenant commander and below a captain) commander of the Central Army Group.
		In 1987-1990, Yazov was a candidate for membership in (The chief executive and political committee of the Communist Party) Politburo.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/D/Dm/Dmitriy_Yazov.htm (213 words)

	Collect Russia END OF THE USSR - personal archive of Marshal of the Soviet Union Dmitry Yazov. Soviet Russian
		Dmitry Yazov was Soviet defense minister in the late 80s - and also the last person to hold the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union before the collapse of the USSR.
		During this period Yazov advanced in rank from lieutenant general to general of the army.
		Yazov's name and date 8 November 1989 are impressed in gold on the cover.
	www.collectrussia.com /DISPITEMWINDOW.HTM?ITEM=8250 (1125 words)

	Russia-United States Relations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Yazov, 78, was Mikhail Gorbachev's defence minister in 1989 when the Soviet Union pulled out from Afghanistan after a nine-year war.
		Yazov played a central role in the Soviets' Afghan war that badly strained relations with the West.
		In the interview, Yazov, now a Defence Ministry adviser on issues such as monuments and memorials, defended secret Soviet work on biological weapons that continued until the country's collapse despite an international treaty against it.
	www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/5537-11.cfm (652 words)

	The Hindu News Update Service
		Putin presented Yazov - who turned 80 last week - with the medal in a brief ceremony at a meeting of the top leadership of Russia's armed forces in Moscow yesterday.
		Yazov - who also fought in World War II - was one of several top Communist Party leaders and Soviet officials who participated in the Aug 19-21, 1991, attempt to overthrow the reformist Gorbachev.
		The coup failed after thousands of people crowded around what was then the Russian parliament building to voice their opposition to the hard-liners and their support for movement toward democracy.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/holnus/003200411181087.htm (248 words)

	Marshal of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The last Marshal of the Soviet Union was Dmitry Yazov, appointed in 1990, who was imprisoned after the failed coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991.
		All of these were officers in World War II, but their higher commands were held in the Warsaw Pact or as Soviet Defence Ministers.
		Even Yazov, who was 20 when the war ended, had been a platoon commander.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marshal_of_the_Soviet_Union (685 words)

	Dmitriy Yazov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Dmitry Timofeyevich Yazov (, en ruso) (llevada 1924), figura militar rusa, mariscal de la Soviet-unio'n (1990).
		En 1987-1990, Yazov era un candidato a calidad de miembro en politburo.
		Durante el coup de agosto de 1991, Yazov era un miembro del comité de emergencia del estado, para quien lo procesarían y fueron condenado.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/dm/Dmitriy%20Yazov.htm (118 words)

	Hint to Future Coup Plotters - COMMENTARY - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		All in all, Putin has made it clear that he feels deep sympathy and respect for Marshal Yazov and his colleagues and their efforts aimed at preserving the unity of the country.
		On Aug. 19, 1991 Marshal Dmitry Yazov joined a group of top Soviet officials who said that in light of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev’s inability to fulfill his duties and in conditions where the country was on the verge of disintegration they assumed full control of the government and declared a state of emergency.
		It was a classic example of a coup d’etat and the usurpation of power from the standpoint of legislation in the USSR — the country to which Marshal Yazov served.
	www.mosnews.com /commentary/2004/11/18/order.shtml (1067 words)

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		Its members included Yanayev, the head of the Cabinet of Ministers Valentin Pavlov, KGB chief Vladimir Kryuchkov, Minister of Internal Affairs Boris Pugo, Minister of Defense Dmitry Yazov, and other parties close to the Kremlin.
		The answer is obvious: As products of the post-war Soviet system, they were incapable of cruelty and violence; they tried to preserve the Union using the "mildest methods." So when the first blood was shed, when they felt they had been betrayed by Gorbachev, they stepped aside, disbanded their committee themselves.
		Yazov, who had participated in the Great Patriotic War, could never have given an order to shoot the Russian parliament.
	www.friends-partners.org /oldfriends/spbweb/times/189-190/failed.html (897 words)

	Kommersant: Nobody Assigned Me Anything
		Vlast analytical weekly is continuing it series of interviews with the people who determined the foreign policy of the USSR in the years of perestroika.
		Dmitry Yazov was called “Gorbachev's marshal of detente” in the Western press.
		Yazov was active in the decommissioning of Soviet military forces and led the withdrawal from Europe.
	www.kommersant.com /page.asp?id=556043 (1900 words)

	Democratic Underground Forums - "U.S. Could Win War, Lose Peace - Ex Soviet Minister"
		You could destroy the entire population,'' Dmitry Yazov told Reuters.
		``The Americans don't understand that by fighting bin Laden, they are provoking the wrath of the whole Afghan population,'' Yazov said in a rare interview.
		Yazov, 78, was Mikhail Gorbachev's defense minister in 1989 when the Soviet Union pulled out from Afghanistan after a nine-year war.
	www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID5/8585.html (462 words)

	Dmitri Yazov Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
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	Encyclopedia: Communist Party of the Soviet Union
		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.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Communist-Party-of-the-Soviet-Union (3357 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Ex-putschists defend 1991 Soviet coup
		He says the surroundings were not the most auspicious this time - a tiny office of the newspaper Patriot in a crumbling Moscow block.
		Dmitry Yazov - a former defence minister - said that in the decade since the dramatic events of 19-21 August 1991, "the political system, the economy and the army have been wiped out, along with the moral purity of the Russian people".
		Dmitry Yazov regretted the lost "moral purity of the Soviet people"
	news.bbc.co.uk.edgesuite.net /1/hi/world/europe/1423034.stm (577 words)

	Dmitriy Yazov - TheBestLinks.com - August, Amnesty, May, Politburo, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
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		During the August Coup of 1991, Kryuchkov was a member of the State Emergency Committee, for which he would be prosecuted and sentenced.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Dmitriy_Yazov.html (162 words)

	RUSNET :: CIS Today :: 2004/05/24 :: Putin to Travel to Normandy to Mark D-Day
		From June 1941, when Hitler broke his nonaggression pact with Moscow and attacked the Soviet Union, to the end of the war in May 1945, an estimated 9 million Soviet soldiers were killed - three times more than all the other Allies' military losses combined.
		"It would be wrong to say that the Allies weren't helping us, but it would be equally incorrect to say they were helping us very actively," Marshal Dmitry Yazov, a former Soviet defense minister who fought throughout the war, told The Associated Press.
		Yazov, echoing a widely held opinion, said D-Day was launched out of fear the Red Army would sweep across Europe, establishing Soviet domination.
	www.rusnet.nl /news/2004/05/24/report02.shtml (832 words)

	Marshal of the Soviet Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Thereafter the rank was awarded only to professional soldiers, withthe exception of Leonid Brezhnev, who made himself a Marshal in 1976.
		Marshal Sergei Akhromeev committedsuicide in 1991 on the fall of the Soviet Union.
		All of these were officersin World War II, but their higher commands were held in the Warsaw Pact or as Soviet Defence Ministers.
	www.therfcc.org /marshal-of-the-soviet-union-165052.html (627 words)

	The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: The 40th Anniversary - Press Releases
		Pictured from L to R: Marshal Dmitry T. Yazov (back to camera), Gen. Igor A. Amosov (obscured), Cuban Vice President José Ramon Fernández, Gen. Anatoly I. Gribkov and Lt. Leonid I. Sannikov.
		Former Soviet Defense Minister (1987-1991), Marshal Dmitry T. Yazov, recounts his experiences as commander of the special motorized rifle regiment Olgin deployed in Cuba in 1962.
		Continuing the discussions at lunch during the conference proceedings are: (L to R) ex-KGB officer Nikolai S. Leonov, National Security Archive staff member Svetlana Savranskaya, former U.S. Ambassador Raymond L. Garthoff, one-time Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Georgy M. Kornienko, and former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara.
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/confphotos.htm (786 words)

	www.rian.ru
		When people who know the structure and designation of an army answer such questions, they quote logical arguments.
		"The president is the Commander-in-Chief, and his direct responsibility is to personally inspect the army's technical equipment and combat readiness." This is the opinion of former Soviet Defense Minister Dmitry Yazov who is not favored by the current authorities, and could well afford to be critical.
		Opposition politicians say that "the president is having fun," or "playing a war game." This opinion clearly has a tinge of male envy.
	en.rian.ru /analysis/20050817/41175319-print.html (585 words)

	GKChP Couldn't Finish What It Started
		According to the prosecutors' documents, following their first meeting, Kryuchkov and Yazov confidentially instructed a select group of their respective subordinates to draft plans for emergency rule, tap the phones of pro-democracy politicians, prepare a group of communications officers to cut off the president's phones and get three army divisions ready to march on Moscow.
		There was one obstacle, the aides said: Given the "complicated situation" in the country — likely a KGB euphemism for six years of democratization — emergency measures required a legal pretext.
		Varennikov flew to Kiev to ensure everything was calm in the Ukranian capital, where the nationalist Rukh movement had been one of the strongest anti-Soviet forces in the country.
	www.moscowtimes.ru /stories/2001/08/17/001-full.html (3259 words)

	World Events in the News
		Further information may be found at the State Library's Permission to publish page.
		On 19 August 1991 a group of hardline Communists known as the ‘Gang of Eight’, led by Vice-President Gennady Yanayev and defence minister Dmitry Yazov, attempted to wrest power from Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
		He was placed under house arrest in the Crimea where he was on holidays.
	www.slsa.sa.gov.au /exhibitions/boland/event1991.htm (424 words)

	Gorbachev’s Nuclear Learning
		In a 1995 political profile of Mikhail Gorbachev, the late Dmitry Volkogonov said: "One of the historical, giant achievements of perestroika was, naturally, the removal in effect of the threat of world nuclear war.
		Ligachev threw in the face of the military that "the Army undercut its authority." Gorbachev picked a new defense minister, Dmitry Yazov, who was a congenial general with no expertise or will to take a stand on arms control.
		1 Dmitry Volkogonov, Sem vozhdei: galereia liderov SSSR [Seven Rulers: A Gallery of the Leaders of the USSR] (Moscow: Novostki, 1995), vol.
	www.bostonreview.net /BR25.2/zubok.html (7142 words)

	Interfax - Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Gorbachev himself was put under house arrest at his resort residence of Foros in the Crimea.
		The committee included Yanayev, Kryuchkov, Soviet defense minister Dmitry Yazov, interior minister Boris Pugo, prime minister Valentin Pavlov, first deputy defense council chairman Oleg Baklanov and others.
		After a three-day standoff with protesters near the headquarters of the then Soviet parliament, the Supreme Council, in Moscow, the GKChP members and a number of their high-ranking supporters were arrested and taken to a detention center.
	www2.interfax.ru /eng/news/politics/040229/42878/story.html (546 words)

	Baltimore Independent Media Center: BTL:Conference On 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Offers Lessons For...
		Among the attendees were former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, CIA analyst Dino Brugioni, and JFK counsel and speechwriter Theodore Sorenson.
		Russian veterans also arrived from Moscow, including deputy foreign minister Georgi Kornienko and former defense minister Dmitry Yazov.
		Thousands of documents have recently been declassified from the Cuban government, the CIA, the Pentagon, the Soviet Foreign Ministry Politburo, Mexico, Canada and Great Britain, providing for the first time, a multinational perspective on the crisis.
	baltimore.indymedia.org /newswire/display/1973/index.php (448 words)

	Marxism message, What ever happened to...?
		Former Russian putsch leaders denounce "plot." MOSCOW -- Almost 10 years after their failed putsch, a group of Russian Communist hardliners held a press conference to denounce "the destruction of the country," and said they were ready to again "mount the barricades" to restore the Soviet Union.
		Perestroika, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's bid in the mid-1980s to reform the Communist system, had been "a plot against the people," said former Soviet defence minister Dmitry Yazov, who co-led the attempted putsch in 1991, at a press conference Wednesday.
		In the decade since the dramatic events of August 19 to 21, 1991, "the political system, the economy and the army have been wiped out, along with the moral purity of the Russian people," he said.
	archives.econ.utah.edu /archives/marxism/2001/msg03239.htm (349 words)

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