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...possible. "Clinton handled the situation very well," Donnelly says. "He stressed his relationship with Yeltsin and the progress Yeltsin has made with reform efforts without overtly saying the communists would not achieve those goals." Clinton and Yeltsin tried to avoid controversial issues such as NATO expansion, the war in Chechnya, and the sale of nuclear technology to Iran. "For Russians, it is pleasing to see a Western leader like Clinton not criticize Russia for doing something wrong," Donnelly says. "Clinton was very careful not to harp on Russia over the economy, foreign policy or Chechnya." Clinton did meet with...
MOSCOW: Russia announced it would begin withdrawing troops from Chechnya, but cautioned that they would return "if the situation deteriorates." Troops Monday began redeploying across the boarder in neighboring Dagestan, the first stage of a three-part withdrawal that is expected to last until at least October. TIME's Andrew Keith says that the withdrawal is largely a cosmetic move, since the soldiers can quickly be sent back into Chechnya if peace negotiations break down. "There is still fighting all over Chechnya despite the cease fire. Among Chechens, there isn't a whole lot of faith in the cease-fire...
...worry foreign governments. But experts around the world wonder not only about what the communists mean but whether they are capable of doing what they intend. There are many skeptics. Russia's relations with the West would certainly be strained under a communist administration, but the military debacle in Chechnya does not indicate that Russia would have the strength to retake Ukraine, for example, let alone occupy Poland...
Another strategy the report discusses is to actually allow the war in Chechnya to worsen. When things became bad enough, as the report puts it, Yeltsin could declare "an emergency concentration of power in the hands of the President for the sake of restoring constitutional order." There is no provision in the Russian constitution that allows for canceling elections because of a state of emergency. However, the rules for imposing a state of emergency do empower the President to ban meetings and mass rallies and to suspend political parties. Holding elections under such restrictions would be almost impossible...
...OUTLOOK] With Yeltsin mired in Chechnya and backpedaling on economic reforms, Zyuganov and his communists appear poised for a spectacular comeback...