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ŠACIRBEY, Mohamad
 Bosnian representatve at the United Nations. Foreign Minister from 1995.

SAIKOV, Lev
 Yeltsin's successoras Moscow party chief. Gave it up in 11/89. Technocrat responsible for the defence industry. 90 named MSG's deputy in the Defence Council.

SAINOVIĆ, Nikola
 Economics minister in Yugoslavia; resigned at end of 11/92. Replaced by Ljubomir Madzar.

SAKHAROV, Andrei*
 The 'conscience' of the soviet peoples. Nuclear scientist who worked on nuclear bomb before renouncing proliferation and exiled to Siberia. Died before Putsch. Denounced Gorbachev for being too slow to reform.

SARINIĆ, Hrvoje
 Prime Minster of Croatia. (1/93) replaced 4/93 by Valentić.
 

SAUDARGAS, Algirdas
 Foreign Minister of Lithuania, 1991.
 
SAVISSAAR, Edgar
 Estonian Prime Minister from 1990 (b.1949).
 
SAVYERYUCHA, Aleksandr
 Russian minister for Agriculture. Conservative deputy prime minister of Russia, 20/1/94. Born in Ukraine (1939). In Agrarian Party leadership. Pro socialist agriculture and a defender of collectivisation against privatisation.

SEPAROVIĆ, Zvonomir
 Ex-Foreign Minister of Croatia. Professor at Zagreb University.
 
ŠEŠELJ, Vojislav
 Head of ultra-nationalist Serbian Radical Party. Named by America as a suspected war criminal 12/92. Chased Panić from the country after he lost the elections in December. Leader of the 'White Eagles' paramilitary.
SHAKHRAI, Sergei
 Minister with responsibility for ethnical groups in Russia. Yeltsin's closest legal advisor.
 

SHAPOSHNIKOV, Yevgeny
 Head of Soviet Air Force before Coup, made Defence Minister (SU) as Air Force didn't play role in coup. Named by Yeltsin as head of the CIS unified command. 6/93 chairman of the Russian Security Council.

SHATALIN
 Author of 500-Day Programme for radical economic reform.

SHEINIS, Viktor
 Leading member of the reform wing the Russian CPD.
 
SHERANSKY
 Prisoner of conscience. One of the last releases to be carried out on the Glienicke bridge between W. Berlin and Potsdam

SHEVARDNADZE, Eduard*
 Party chief in Georgia, allowing some private enterprise and management. Campaigned against corruption, made him a target of two murder assassination attempts. Soviet Foreign Minister for most of Gorbachev's term of office. Fired those responsible in 1989 after 19 were killed by soldiers in Tblisi. Resigned in December 1990, warning of imminent dictatorship. Later President of Georgian ruling council after Gamsakhurdia's flight. Previously Party Leader in Tblisi.

SHERIMKULOV, Medektan
 President of Kirghizia. (1992) to 1/93.
 
SHISHA, Georgy
 Deputy Prime Minister of Russia [10/92]. Sent to Ingushetia to solve problems with N. Ossetia.

SHLYKOV, Vitaly
 Deputy Soviet and then Russian Defence minister. Later warned (6/94) of the strength of the military-defence industry lobby and sub-plan expenditure on military.

SHOKHIN, Aleksandr
 Minister and Deputy Prime Minister in the Russian Government up to December 1992. Replaced Gaidar in the new cabinet, 1/94, also as economics minister. Viewed as an opportunist in the reform debate. Member of centrist Unity and Accord.

SHUMEIKO, Vladimir
 Russian first deputy PM (8/92), responsible for Russia's industrial policy. Touted as 2nd deputy PM under Gaidar 4/92 when he said he would work with him.  An interventionist and previously deputy Speaker of Parliament. First Deputy Prime Minister (93). Co-chairman of constitutional commission (2/93).

SILAJDZIČ, Haris
 Bosnian Foreign Minister since the first multi-part elections in 1990. 10/93 charged with the formation of a new government. After Akmadľić's official resignation. Prime Minister (1995)
 
SILAYEV, Ivan
 Russian PM at time of coup. Also made SU PM.

SIMOVIĆ, Miodrag
 Deputy PM in Bosnia.

SINDERMANN
President of the DDR Volkskammer who visited BRD in 1986 at the invitation of the SPD parliamentary party.
 
SINOVIEV
 Lenin's man in Comintern (3rd Internationale) Steerer of 2nd. Congress.

SIYUNKOV, Nikolai
 Was party boss in Belorussia. Responsible for the information deficit after Chernobyl. Secretary of the CPSU. 1987 Responsibility for economic and social policy.

SKOKOV, Yuri
 Chairman of the Security Council (sometimes coined Yeltsin's inner cabinet). Sacked 6/93 for disloyalty. Replaced by Shaposhnikov. Telegraph, 10/92 "A secretive apparatchik from the military-industrial complex.

SKRABALO, Ivo
 Leader of the Croatian Social Liberal Party. Urged equal treatment of Serbs outside Serbia. Replaced as foreign minister by Granić.

SMIRNOV
 President and PM of Trans-Dniestr region.

SNEGUR, Mircea
 President of independent Moldova, at forefront in war against Transdnistrian secession.

SOBCHAK, Antonin
 Radical Mayor of St. Petersburg. Played very prominant role in opposition to Russian coup. Supported by factory workers, usually the most orthodox citizens.

SOKOLOV
 Fired from his post as minister of defence after Matthias Rust landed on Red Square in 1987.

SOSKOVETS, Oleg
 First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia 4/93, minister of industry. First deputy prime minister in the new Chernomyrdin cabinet, 20/1/94. Conservative. Born in Kazakhstan. 1991 Soviet minister for the steel industry for a few months, then deputy premier under Nazarbayev in Kazakhstan. (1949)

SOSLAMBEKOV
 Spokesman for the Confederation of Caucasian Mountain Peoples.

SOSNALIYEV, Sultan
 Self-styled defence minister of Abkhazia, 1993.

STANKEVITCH, Stanislav
 Yeltsin aide and spokesman.

STARAVOITOVA, Galina
 Former Russian government spokeswoman. Supporter of Yeltsin and called for elections to an interim parliament 6/93.

STARODUBTSEV
 Head of the Agrarian Union, member of coup team 8/91.

STEPANKOV, Valentin
 Russian attorney general 4/93 accuses Grachev of misappropriation of army property. Resigned 6/10/93.
 
STOJADINOVIĆ, Ljubodrag
 JNA official spokesman
 

STOJANOV, Dragoljub
 Economic adviser to the Bosnian government. Believed the conflict in Bosnia was the precursor to a 'great European war' which would move to Kosovo and Macedonia.

STOLOJAN
 PM of Romania '92 after elections.

STOPH, Willi
 DDR Prime Minister 1973-76; chairman of the Council of Ministers after this. Replace 13/11/89 as PM by Modrow. Arrested 1989 on corruption charges, freed 2/90 on health grounds.

SUCHOCKA, Hanna
 Polish Prime Minister (9/92). Democratic Union member, asked to forma government after Pawlak's attempts had failed. Previously a depty speaker of the Council of Europe parliamentary assembly, and leader of the Polish delegation. A lawyer by profession, she served as an MP for a satellite party during martial law; while a member of Solidarity she voted against martial law and the banning of Solidarity in 1982. Reelected 1989 on the Solidarity ticket, she joined the Democratic Union.
 
SURROI, Veton
 Leader of Parliamentarians Party in Kosovo who consistently advocated dialogue with the Serbs.

SZABO, Ivan Appointed Finance minister of Hungary 2/93 after Kupa's surprise resignation. Moderate, former engineer. Was industry minister before being given the new post.

SZÜRÖS, Mátyás
 ACring Hungarian president during the transition, 1989-90.

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TEIKMANIS, Karlis
 Mayor of Riga, fluent German speaker. Instrumental in the establishment of the city's Hanseatische Kontor / Bremen Hamburg.

TER-PETROSIAN, Levon
 President of Armenia, from before coup 'till spring '92 (after?)
 
TETAK
 Captain, deputy commander of the Bosnian army.

TISYAKOV
 Chairman of the Union of Soviet State Enterprises, member of coup team 8/91.

THORNBERRY, Cedric
 Deputy Chief of the UN's military peacekeeping mission in former Yugoslavia. Civil Director of Affairs, UNPROFOR.

TRAVKIN, Nikolai
 In Civic Union leadership in Russia. Leader of the Democratic Russia Party.
 
TRPKOVIĆ, Serj
 Bosnian Serb spokesman in London.

TUĐMAN, Franjo
 President of Croatia. Accused of being too soft and acting too slowly by Croatian milita. HDZ.

TURAJLIĆ, Hakija
 Bosnian Deputy Prime Minister, assassinated by Serb irregulars in a UN armoured vehicle.

TYMINSKI, Ladislav
 Canadian emigré who returned to Poland to fight in Presidential elections, 1991. Accused of illegal activities by Wałęsa. Formed Party X.