• Boris Karlovich Pugo (Latvian: Boriss Pugo, Russian: Борис Карлович Пуго; 19 February 1937 – 22 August 1991) was a Soviet communist politician of Latvian...
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  • Pugo may refer to: Boris Pugo, a Soviet politician Pugo, La Union, a Philippine town Pugo (comedian), a famous Filipino comedian and vaudevillian (1898-1978)...
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    Soviet Defense Minister Dmitry Yazov, Central Control Commission Chairman Boris Pugo, Premier Valentin Pavlov, Vice President Gennady Yanayev, Soviet Defense...
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  • actor Boris Podrecca (born 1940), Slovenian-Italian architect Boris Polak (born 1954), Israeli world champion and Olympic sport shooter Boris Pugo (1937–1991)...
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  • (1966–1983) Mikhail Solomentsev (1983–1988) Boris Pugo (1988–1990) Chairman of the Central Control Commission: Boris Pugo (1990–1991) Yevgeny Makhov (1991) Central...
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  • 20 August. Along with the other coup leaders, such as Valentin Pavlov and Boris Pugo for instance, Yanayev was dismissed as vice president and later jailed...
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    1990 Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov Preceded by Alexander Vlasov Succeeded by Boris Pugo Personal details Born (1937-11-06)6 November 1937 Kiselyovsk, Kemerovo...
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  • Yanayev (1937–2010), Vice President Valentin Pavlov (1937–2003), Premier Boris Pugo (1937–1991), Interior Minister Dmitry Yazov (1924–2020), Defense Minister...
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    Popular Front was founded in June 1988. On 4 October, Gorbachev replaced Boris Pugo, the "old guard" leader of the Communist Party of Latvia, with the more...
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    with other hardline officials in the new presidential cabinet such as Boris Pugo, Valentin Pavlov, and Gennady Yanayev to undermine Gorbachev's rule. This...
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  • President Gennady Yanayev, Premier Valentin Pavlov, Interior Minister Boris Pugo, Defence Minister Dmitry Yazov, Chairman of the KGB Vladimir Kryuchkov...
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    international telephone exchange. Contrary to OMON officer claims Boris Karlovich Pugo and Mikhail Gorbachev both claimed they were not informed of this...
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    Gennady Yanayev, Vice President of the Soviet Union, Interior Minister Boris Pugo, Defense Minister Dmitry Yazov and other hardliners who were determined...
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  • suicide among the Soviet leadership at that time. Soviet Interior Minister Boris Pugo, one of the plotters, allegedly shot his wife and himself in their apartment...
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    the First Secretaries: Jānis Kalnbērziņš, Arvīds Pelše, Augusts Voss, Boris Pugo. [citation needed] In the following months of 1940, the Soviet Constitution...
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    Light") "Pūt, Vējiņi!" – Latvian version of a Livonian wedding folk song ("Pūgõ tūļ") and often used in place of the national anthem during the Soviet era...
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    Valentin Varennikov expressed doubts about the suicides of Akhromeyev and Boris Pugo. In addition to personal messages to his family, he left a note explaining...
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    minister Boris Pugo was one of the main organizers of the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, and when the coup failed, he killed himself. Pugo was replaced...
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    Maslyukov (1937–2010), the last Gosplan chairman Boris Nemtsov (1959–2015), Russian opposition politician Boris Pugo (1937–1991), Latvian Communist political...
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    provide protection. Defense Minister Dmitry Yazov, Interior Minister Boris Pugo and Gorbachev all asserted that no one in Moscow gave orders to use force...
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  • architect Jēkabs Peterss (1886–1938) – revolutionary and Soviet Cheka leader Boris Pugo (1937-1991) - Soviet Minister of Interior Kristīne Petrikina (born 1985)...
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  • Cyprus (58 BC), King of Cyprus and member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, poison Boris Pugo (1991), Soviet politician, gunshot Kushal Punjabi (2019), Indian actor...
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    aircraft designer Andrey Dementyev, poet Anton Solovyov, football player Boris Pugo, politician Darya Klishina, athlete Denis Kokarev, ice hockey player Evgeny...
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    commission of the Central Committee was established under the guidance of Boris Pugo, with the stated intention of "check[ing] the facts ... about violations...
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  • Communist Party of Latvia In office 4 October 1988 – 7 April 1990 Preceded by Boris Pugo Succeeded by Alfrēds Rubiks Personal details Born (1930-10-17)17 October...
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    Union Dmitry Yazov, KGB Chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov, Interior Minister Boris Pugo, along with two "special" members with full time council responsibilities:...
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  • Primakov Евгений Примаков By-election Not 1929 2015 1959 Russian Male Boris Pugo Борис Пуго By-election Not 1937 1991 1963 Latvian Male Georgy Razumovsky...
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  • 1942) 1991 – Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian-American actress (b. 1924) 1991 – Boris Pugo, Russian soldier and politician, Soviet Minister of Interior (b. 1937)...
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  • — Mikhail Agursky, cyberneticist and dissident (b. 1933) August 22 — Boris Pugo, Minister of the Interior and member of the Emergency Committee (GKChP)...
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    Lithuanian Prime Minister Gediminas Vagnorius officially complained to Boris Pugo, Soviet Minister of Internal Affairs in charge of OMON troops. Moscow...
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