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Third on the CIA's worry list is the possible "involvement of local, nuclear-armed units in separatist movements." The question here is what might have happened if the leaders of Chechnya's rebellion had had access to some nuclear weapons during the time the Russian army was pounding Grozny into rubble...
...Remnick takes you with him. He asks, What is going on over there? And then he answers in a series of brilliantly etched close-ups that when read together have a cumulative, pointillist impact. Remnick shows readers Yeltsin's civil war with the Russian parliament, the populated rubble of Chechnya, the return of the unhonored prophet Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the offices of the new business czars, and the salons of Moscow's intelligentsia. He likes to put you in a room where important people carry on thought-provoking discussions. In one intense conversation, satirical novelist Vladimir Voinovich laments that the party...
...nationally televised State of Russia address, Yeltsin provided a long and unsparing litany of Russia's ills. The president covered them all: from unpaid taxes to unpaid wages, from crime and poverty in the streets to corruption in the government, from an expanding NATO and a crumbling military to Chechnya, the tiny republic yearning to wriggle free. But the centerpiece of Russian renewal, Yeltsin insisted, must be filli ng the national coffers--and improving their distribution. To that end, he announced that "taxation reform is my economic task for this year" and made a goal of GNP growth...
...government was determined to portray the inauguration in the secessionist republic as an internal Russian affair, few foreign leaders were present at the event. Now comes the hard part for Maskhadov, who built his fame as a tough-minded and decisive military leader in masterminding several key victories in Chechnya's bloody struggle with Russia. He is faced with a large-scale reconstruction of Chechnya. The war left the capital of Grozny flattened and the region's economy nearly at a halt. The government must also deal with thousands of refugees and war widows. Hanging over all is the need...
...scrambling reflects the Yeltsin team's awareness that they are still deeply unpopular with Russian voters, who, if given the chance, would happily put someone else in charge. That person would probably be Alexander Lebed, the former general whose successful peace negotiations in Chechnya last year have made him the most popular--and electable--figure in the country. If Lebed ascended to the presidency, he would inherit one of the most authoritarian constitutions of any state in the world that aspires to democracy. This is deeply worrisome, and not just to Yeltsin's advisers, because Russia would then...