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August is the cruelest month in Russian politics, a month that recalls low points like the 1991 coup attempt and last year's economic collapse. But this August, Yeltsin's final one in the Kremlin, has been particularly unkind. The Swiss are still probing, while Islamic separatists drag Russia yet again into the Caucasus quagmire and regional chieftains from St. Petersburg to Tatarstan hunger for a bigger slice of the federal powers. Yeltsin's final year was supposed to be dedicated to dignified business: handing over the Kremlin to an heir sworn to reforming Russia. He may yet succeed...
Spurred by Mitock's death, State Representative Tom Hayden introduced a bill, now pending in the California legislature, that would make it tougher for drivers 75 and older to renew their license. The "Brandi Jo" bill is just one attempt to cope with a mounting public-health concern. Since 1987, fatal crashes involving drivers 70 and older have risen 42%, to some 4,928 in 1997. In 20 years, the number of 70-plus drivers will have ballooned to 30 million, and highway-safety experts warn that the number of people killed in crashes involving elderly motorists is likely...
...symbolic occasion, government officials pressed the button detonating some 1,200 pounds of dynamite packed into the structure?s thick walls. But when the dust settled, the mausoleum had simply tilted a little - to the left - drawing ironic cheers from the crowd. Titters turned to guffaws as a second attempt, a few hours later, left Dimitrov?s tomb unmoved...
...capital is flying out of the country at hyper-speed and allegations of kickbacks and corruption permeate the government all the way to the office of President Boris Yeltsin. Those suspicions have led to speculation that Yeltsin's ongoing game of Whack-a-Mole with his cabinet is an attempt to ensure that a friendly, non-prosecutorial government will succeed him. So far, there are no allegations of wrongdoing by the Bank of New York, but the institution has suspended two executives believed to be connected to the case. One of them, Lucy Edwards, spoke at an international banking conference...
Primakov is proposing a weaker presidency, a stronger prime minister, and a Duma (parliament) that actually matters ?- all catnip, of course, to non-Yeltsin pols. He also wants a vice president, a position abolished by Boris after a failed coup attempt by said veep. "We could well be looking at Yeltsin's nightmare ticket for the coming presidential elections: Primakov for president and Luzhkov as prime minister," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "Even in his mental fog, Yeltsin must see that the program is an implicit rejection of everything that he has presided over." Primakov even tossed...