Soviet party boss sacked
NZPA-AP Moscow The Soviet Communist Party removed the Moscow party chief Viktor Grishin, from his post yesterday at a special meeting presided over by the Kremlin leader,
Mikhail Gorbachev. A brief report by the official news agency, Tass, said that Mr Grishin, aged 71, had retired and was replaced by Boris Yeltsin, aged 64, who was elected as
Communist Party secretary in July. There was no word on Mr Grishin’s other post as a full member of the ruling Politburo, but he presumably will lose that job as. well.
Mr Grishin’s name has been linked to rumours and scandals about Moscow’s housing construction industry, which underwent party investigation earlier this year.
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