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...never carried out the plot, believing Yeltsin's bodyguards would mow them down even before they could get close. But their attitude reflects the disaffection that top- and middle-level officers harbor toward the President. Many of them were once among his strongest backers, but the disastrous war in Chechnya, the general poverty of the officer corps, the delays in salary payments and an overall sense that Russia has been humbled have created powerful anti-Yeltsin sentiments. "Six years ago, I was ready to genuflect before Yeltsin," said the colonel. "Now I would just love to lock him in handcuffs...
MOSCOW: As the Russian presidential campaign enters the home stretch, President Boris Yeltsin is stepping up his reelection effort. Wednesday brought a plan to end the 17-month conflict in Chechnya along with praise and promises of more financial backing for the Russian army. Yeltsin proposes a Chechen republic still under Russian dominion, but with control over its own natural resources and finances. "The Chechens probably won't like this first proposal," reports TIME Moscow correspondent Sally Donnelly, "since they have been fighting all this time to establish an independent republic. But at least the Russians are starting to talk...
MOSCOW: As the Russian presidential campaign enters the home stretch, President Boris Yeltsin is stepping up his reelection effort. Wednesday brought a plan to end the 17-month conflict in Chechnya along with praise and promises of more financial backing for the Russian army. Yeltsin proposes a Chechen republic still under Russian dominion, but with control over its own natural resources and finances. "The Chechens probably won't like this first proposal," reports TIME Moscow correspondent Sally Donnelly, "since they have been fighting all this time to establish an independent republic. But at least the Russians are starting to talk...
Whatever government emerges from the coming elections, it will face the same circumstances: an economy that can prosper only if market reforms continue, if business is free to compete and if borders are open to trade; a war in Chechnya that can only be resolved politically; and an international community that wants Russia to be fully integrated--as long as it respects international norms. The proposals of Russia's Communists, among others, are a serious cause for concern. But the true test for us will be how Russia's next government actually responds to these challenges...
...find Russian-style democracy, one must seek it not in the political system but in the new openness of Russian society. It can be glimpsed in the marches against the war in Chechnya by mothers of draft-age men, in the anti-Kremlin diatribes printed by tabloids that leave an unpleasant ink smudge on the fingers. There are less appetizing signs as well in the thuggish youths wearing gym suits who hawk alcohol and cigarettes in sheet-metal kiosks, keeping one step ahead of the law, and in the smug young bankers who make million-dollar deals in currency exchange...