Word: ameses
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The Ames scandal catches Yeltsin at a particularly fragile time in his ) presidency. Faced with continued opposition from ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky and his conservative and communist followers in parliament, Yeltsin has been forced to retreat from the grand promises of reform he made to Clinton in January. Last week the...
The spy scandal, say some in Washington, serves as an overdue wake-up call for the U.S. government -- a notice that the benign esteem in which the Clinton foreign policy team holds Russia is dangerously myopic. The Ames scandal "ends the simpleminded optimism that we could have a relationship with...
Statements like Dole's, echoed by a number of other Republicans, come across as ill advised to those who believe that however scandalous the Ames case may now seem, its significance is eclipsed by the infinitely greater importance of supporting Russian democracy. "The rush to judgment of the last couple...
Glickman's statement seemed mild compared with the reaction in Moscow, where Russian intelligence officials could only roll their eyes at America's holier- than-thou hypocrisy. Some interpreted the timing of Ames' arrest as a jealous rejoinder to Moscow's recent diplomatic triumph in Bosnia. To others the American...
The public relations fallout from the Ames case will probably dissipate fairly swiftly. But what will not go away and will, in the next several months, have far more significant consequences for U.S.-Russian relations is the disturbing question of whether Yeltsin's power base is slowly eroding. Despite a...