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- GRAPEVINE, Page 15The Soviet Brain Drain
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- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Daniel S. Levy
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- Mikhail Gorbachev may hold out hope for the return of
- perestroika, but he won't be getting much encouragement. "Among
- Gorbachev's top advisers, just about everybody is gone," claims
- John Mroz, president of the Institute for East-West Security
- Studies. Many other reform-minded leaders have left the country
- altogether. The latest departure: Boris Fyodorov, the respected
- finance minister of the Russian republic, who will take up a
- job in London later this month at the European Bank for
- Reconstruction and Development. Most of Gorbachev's policy
- shapers have been replaced by unknowns from the Central
- Committee's ideology department. Before their arrival, some of
- these new advisers purportedly helped draft a secret memorandum
- last summer that became the blueprint for the January military
- crackdown in Lithuania. The classified memo surfaced in
- Nezavisimaya Gazeta, a new liberal daily newspaper that has
- been tolerated despite the general ebbing of glasnost that has
- occurred in the state-run electronic media.
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