WORLD : Quit, Yeltsin Tells Top Leaders
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MOSCOW — Boris N. Yeltsin, the new president of the Soviet Union’s biggest and most powerful republic, called today for the resignation of the national government and of Prime Minister Nikolai I. Ryzhkov.
At his first news conference since his election as president of the Russian Federation on Tuesday, Yeltsin condemned Ryzhkov’s plans for transformation to a market economy and said he would resist projected price rises.
In another challenge to Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, he said the federation will adopt a law on its sovereign rights under which “land and natural resources belong to Russia alone.”
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