The purpose of these eight ministers is to cut the central Soviet bureaucracy.

It was all the fault of the Soviet bureaucracy, he said.

"These were key people involved in every component of the Soviet bureaucracy," including senior intelligence officials and a top nuclear weapons expert, the official said.

We were never part of the Soviet bureaucracy.

Then you come up against the Soviet bureaucracy, the multitude of people not used to consumer products.

But high initial costs and the Soviet bureaucracy have discouraged many.

Frequent subjects included computers, family life, excessive capitalism and Soviet bureaucracy.

Schnittke and his music were often viewed suspiciously by the Soviet bureaucracy.

So they are loath to tangle with the Soviet bureaucracy.

The education process works both ways, he notes, since overseas companies often need help in trying to fathom the still-labyrinthine Soviet bureaucracy.