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eccentric dictator Saparmurat Niyazov.
These countries remember are dominated by old Soviet
> apparatchiki," said a western official.
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Is this code for those who won't co-operate with US plans? ---------- Me: Yep. Nobody calls Shevardnadze an old Soviet apparatchik, even though he was the USSR's minister of foreign affairs. Or Yeltsin, though he is the archetype. They used to call Putin that, until he became pro-West.
Chris Doss The Russia Journal