Status Updates From The New Russians

“In early 1989, a tribunal in Moscow sent a slew of high [Uzbek] officials to jail, including the number two figure in the national police, Brezhnev’s son-in-law Yuri Churbanov, the first deputy minister of internal affairs. Gdlyan accused Churbanov of taking 657,000 rubles in bribes to cover up corruption at lower levels; the court sentenced Churbanov to twelve years in the gulag. […]”