MOSCOW: Hard-line lawmakers demanded President Boris Yeltsin resign after his reformist prime minister reported Sept.22 that production was down, prices up and the deficit growing dangerously.
We should have a no-confidence vote in the government and make it resign,” said legislator Mikhail Chelnokov, accusing Acting Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar of crafting his policies to benefit the West rather than Russia.
Gaidar, opening the fall season of the Supreme Soviet legislature, said industrial production fell by 27% in August. He forecast a 20% drop for all of 1992,
Article extracted from this publication >> October 2, 1992
