Word: cabineteer
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Chernomyrdin, the former boss of a Soviet-era gas enterprise, is an improbable candidate to fix something so fundamental. The government he is putting together is likely to go the other way, back to the U.S.S.R., at least partway. If he brings communists into the Cabinet in what he calls a "government of accord," he could produce no more than stalemate. But if he acts on the compromise program he approved last week, things will get worse fast. When Chernomyrdin last served as Prime Minister, he took a crucial step: he stopped financing the government's budget deficit by printing...
...Chernomyrdin camp acknowledge that Berezovsky played a major role in encouraging the cautious former Prime Minister to come out publicly last summer with his plan to run for President in 2000. They confirm that the two met to discuss the future shortly before Yeltsin fired Kiriyenko and his whole Cabinet. Unlikely to be anything but lackluster on the stump, Chernomyrdin would now gain enormous advantage in a potential electoral struggle with more dynamic campaigners like retired General Alexander Lebed if Yeltsin were to quit and make him acting chief executive. By one account, it was Berezovsky too who unexpectedly called...
Taken together, Starr and Clinton's decision to fight to the death will change the way the government works. Until now, it was widely assumed that government officials--the President, the Cabinet, members of Congress--could seek advice from government lawyers without worrying about those conversations becoming public. It is now clear that this and other presidential privileges did not have the force of law; they depended largely on the willingness of a President's enemies and critics not to challenge them. By testing so many prerogatives, Starr and Clinton have made good advice that much harder for Presidents...
MOSCOW: Boris Yeltsin's latest cabinet reshuffle has left his supporters worried about his sanity while his country braces for yet another 180-degree turn in economic policy. Five months ago Yeltsin fired Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin for fomenting a financial crisis; on Sunday he reappointed Chernomyrdin to resolve that crisis. "To put it generously, this is rather illogical on Yeltsin's part," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "It has raised serious doubts over the president's logical processes, even among his staunch backers...
...Although Yeltsin told the country Chernomyrdin's appointment was supposed to "maintain stability," its effect may be the opposite: The prime minister wants to reverse last week's ruble devaluation package and is expected to drop Anatoly Chubais from his cabinet -- one of the few Russian politicians to enjoy any confidence among Western bankers. President Clinton, when he arrives at the Kremlin next week, may feel as if he's walked into the Mad Hatter's tea party. "Yeltsin is no longer connected in any sense to the solution to Russia's crisis," says Quinn-Judge. "He's very much...