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MOSCOW: The tycoons whose money reelected Boris Yeltsin in 1996 have chosen their presidential candidate for 2000, and it's not "Czar Boris" -- it's the man he fired as prime minister last Monday. Viktor Chernomyrdin commands only 5.7 percent in the polls, but his backers point out that Yeltsin's numbers looked no better at the start of the 1996 campaign...
Some National Security Council aides are grumbling that they'd like to pull the plug on the twice-a-year meetings AL GORE has with Russian Premier VIKTOR CHERNOMYRDIN. The sessions, they say, have lately produced few results. Chernomyrdin has dropped in the Kremlin pecking order and can no longer deliver much. But the Veep, who's in Russia this week for his ninth Gore-Chernomyrdin commission meeting, is still high on the confabs. In past get-togethers Gore has hammered out agreements on unglamorous issues other politicians avoid, like environmental cleanup and health-care exchanges. This week's meeting...
...While President Clinton still faces a tough battle to get Senate approval for the nuclear test-ban treaty he signed a year ago ? and touted at the U.N. on Monday ? Al Gore is having better luck. He and his friend of four years, the Russian prime minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, signed an historic deal Tuesday halting the production of weapons-grade plutonium ? the next step, say negotiators, toward a less nuclear world...
MOSCOW: A newly vigorous President Boris Yeltsin dismissed his entire cabinet except for Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and First Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Chubais. Chernomyrdin now has one week to form a new, slimmer government, one full of the "competent and energ etic" people Yeltsin promised last week to bring into a restructured government. The house cleaning should streamline bureaucracy. Eleven of the twelve deputy prime ministers, a posh title regularly doled out to political cronies, will be eliminated , leaving former presidential Chief of Staff Chubais, who currently oversees Russia's economic reform drive. The 50 people who head...
Late last week both Chernomyrdin and Chubais put out the word that the President is on the mend. As if to reinforce that perception, Yeltsin announced on Friday that he was opposed to any "hasty" changes in the constitution. He also made a couple of appearances at the Kremlin but they served only to underscore the harsh fact that Yeltsin's primary task these days is simply to keep himself upright and ticking. If he can manage that, the Kremlin may be able to stave off an early election and avoid succumbing to the impulse to tamper with an already...