Word: chernomyrdin
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...hospital in Budennovsk in the Russian region of Stavropol in which 120 people died, discounted religious fervor as Basayev's prime motivation: "He is a man of war." (Kazbek has also since disappeared.) The Budennovsk hospital siege - and the live televised negotiations with then Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin - confirmed Basayev as a folk hero back home, showing the embattled Chechens how a lowly boy from Vedeno could make even the Russian PM capitulate...
...agreement between Gore and then Russian prime minister Viktor Chernomyrdin obliged Russia to stop shipping conventional weapons to Iran, in order to exempt Moscow from automatic U.S. sanctions against those who sell arms to countries on the State Department's list of states sponsoring terrorism. Despite the undertaking, Russia continued to fulfill orders for fighter aircraft, armored vehicles and submarines, but it has withdrawn from the Gore-Chernomyrdin agreement to take advantage of a $5 billion Iranian order for helicopters, surface-to-air missiles and new tanks and jets...
...know how long the last crew member survived after the Kursk went down. It's obviously significant that 23 members of the crew of 118 survived the initial accident. So for Putin, it's another case of a syndrome that has been best described by former prime minister Viktor Chernomyrdin: 'We hoped for the best, but it turned out as always.' He'd put all this expense and manpower into recovering the bodies, and instead he lifted the very noose he'd tried to bury...
...Bosnia, Bush did not leap to support it, as he claimed, but said at the time he was "praying," before eventually lending an equivocal voice. He called Nigeria an important "continent." And he may have created a minor international incident by accusing former Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin of pocketing IMF loans, without any solid evidence. Gore let it go, but Chernomyrdin didn't. He warned that "Mr. Bush Jr. should be getting ready for a trial...
...House Republican leadership's Policy Committee will produce a 209-page report pillorying the Clinton administration for its handling of Russia. The main target? Al Gore, who gets two chapters all to himself - one concerning the bilateral commission he chaired with former Russian prime minister and Gazprom magnate Viktor Chernomyrdin, the other on the "barnyard epithet" Gore reportedly scrawled across a CIA report alleging Chernomyrdin's corrupt activities. These are part of a broader pattern of administration errors that have brought warm U.S.-Russian relations in 1992 to a frosty atmosphere now, the report alleges...