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Moscow has had no functioning government since Aug. 23, when President Boris Yeltsin dismissed his young Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko. His successor, acting Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, is under heavy pressure from the communist-dominated Duma. Parliamentarians are pushing aggressively for a greater say in running the country. Yelstin had...
Probably the only thing worse than going through with the summit would have been canceling it. If Clinton had backed out, he would have allowed Moscow's growing anti-American forces to charge that Clinton first had pushed Yeltsin into failed reforms, and now was abandoning his faithful friend Boris...
What faith can anyone put in Boris Yeltsin's words? Five months ago, the Russian President said Viktor Chernomyrdin was not good enough to be Prime Minister and fired him. Last week he hired him back as the "heavyweight" who could save Russia from collapse.
Of course, they could not have done so without the consent of the man most responsible for the mess, Boris Yeltsin. As the economy crumbled around him, the physically and politically ailing President was more isolated than ever, humiliated and dismissed as irrelevant. Former supporters abandoned him, and some in...
Behind the machinations that brought back Chernomyrdin stood one nimble figure in particular--Boris Berezovsky, financial baron turned political wheeler-dealer, the most ruthless of the so-called New Russians in the art of turning money into power. Unlike the men officially running the government, he always knows what he...