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LABOR MINISTER SAYS RUSSIA ON “VERGE OF EXPLOSION.”

Publication Monitor

06.02.1995

LABOR MINISTER SAYS RUSSIA ON “VERGE OF EXPLOSION.”

Russian labor minister Gennady Melikyan, in an interview with Obshchaya gazeta (no. 22), warned that the current pattern in Russia where the rich get richer and the poor poorer could trigger a social explosion. To deal with that possibility, the Russian government must either suppress the population by force or move to end the growing and–for Russians, unaccustomed–income differentiation.

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