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...action, and probably as remote as he has been up to now, until the New Year. As he recovers, he will rule largely through three people. His Prime Minister, the stolid Viktor Chernomyrdin, will present the administration's reassuring face--business as usual. His chief of staff, Anatoli Chubais, sardonically nicknamed the Regent by his enemies, will be the strategic powerhouse of the regime. And the key will be Yeltsin's younger daughter, Tatyana Dyachenko, who is the most trusted channel of political information to and from the President...
...Yeltsin administration's own confidence. In the past few weeks this appears to have declined sharply. Lebed, the most popular politician in the country at large, has never had many admirers in the government. Until now, however, the predominant view among people like presidential chief of staff Anatoli Chubais has been that Lebed should be kept inside the tent, where he can be at least partly controlled, rather than allowed to run amuck in the world outside. Now the Kremlin has decided that Lebed is more dangerous inside than out. Chubais and others seem to be basing their conclusion...
...been arrested in connection with these allegations. During most of this time Yeltsin--now largely reduced to symbolic 60-sec. taped appearances on the evening news--sat quietly by, occasionally expressing incongruously mild disapproval. All this came to an end in the middle of last week. Interior Minister Anatoli Kulikov, Lebed's open and bitter enemy, declared that Lebed was planning a coup, that he wanted to place most of the country's intelligence and military machine under his control and had proposed the creation of a 50,000-strong Russian Legion--ostensibly to fight crime, but in fact, Kulikov...
...worked too well. Today, with the President hospitalized for ever lengthening preoperative tests, power is divided three ways: the presidential administration, headed by the young, ambitious and abrasive Anatoli Chubais; Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin; and national security chief Alexander Lebed. Lebed and Chernomyrdin have presidential ambitions. Chubais, whose role in the privatization of Russian industry made him deeply unpopular, has no hope of winning the presidency but would clearly like to be Prime Minister in the post-Yeltsin era. No single member of the triad can claim supremacy over the others, and none trusts his two colleagues. Watching, and ready...
...question now is whether Yeltsin has the physical and mental stamina to keep that high-risk approach going. "Yeltsin is always capable of something unexpected," says Anatoli Sobchak, the former mayor of St. Petersburg. "He seems to have lost all his strength and then he recuperates." But each recuperation appears to exact a heavier toll, and bouts of hyperactivity are followed by longer and longer periods of inaction and illness. That is no long-term prescription for keeping control of a country as unruly as Russia today...