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The Presidential Council was created in March 1990 to replace the Politburo as the major policymaking body in the USSR. According to article 127 in the Soviet constitution the job of the presidential council was "to implement the basic thrust of USSR's domestic and foreign policy and ensure the country's security". It was abolished on 26 December 1990. Only the writer Valentin Rasputin was a non-party member.

The members were as follows:

Name	Occupation
Chingiz Aitmatov	A Kyrgyz writer
Vadim Bakatin	Minister of Interior
Valery Boldin	Head of the Central Committee General Department
Nikolai Gubenko	Minister of Culture of the Soviet Union
Albert Kauls	Chairman of the Adazhi agromdustnal combine (Latvian)
Vadim Medvedev
Yury Maslyukov	Chairman of the State Planning Committee
Yury Osipian	Physicist and Vice Chairman of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Yevgeny Primakov	Chairman of the USSR Soviet of the Union
Valentin Rasputin	A nationalist writer
Grigory Revenko	The head of the president's staff (Ukrainian)
Alexander Yakovlev	A senior secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Nikolai Ryzhkov	Chairman of the Council of Ministers
Stanislav Shatalin	Economist
Eduard Shevardnadze	Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union (Georgian)
Gennady Yanayev	Vice President of the Soviet Union
Venyamin Yarin	Chairman of the United Workers Front
Dmitry Yazov	Marshal and Minister of Defence of Soviet Union

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