Word: chernomyrdin
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...worked too well. Today, with the President hospitalized for ever lengthening preoperative tests, power is divided three ways: the presidential administration, headed by the young, ambitious and abrasive Anatoli Chubais; Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin; and national security chief Alexander Lebed. Lebed and Chernomyrdin have presidential ambitions. Chubais, whose role in the privatization of Russian industry made him deeply unpopular, has no hope of winning the presidency but would clearly like to be Prime Minister in the post-Yeltsin era. No single member of the triad can claim supremacy over the others, and none trusts his two colleagues. Watching, and ready...
...long run, if there is a long run, Lebed could face a serious challenge from the Prime Minister. Chernomyrdin, 58, received a very restrained vote of confidence from Yeltsin last week when, after two weeks of hesitation, the Kremlin announced he would indeed act as President during the President's incapacitation. But if Yeltsin has his way, Chernomyrdin will have little time to project himself to the public as a steady, reassuring leader. He will assume presidential powers when Yeltsin goes into the operating room and surrender them when the anesthetic wears off. Chernomyrdin has other problems. The most immediate...
...heart surgery has been apparent to foreign specialists for months. He did not say exactly what the operation would be, though a prominent Russian heart surgeon later told the Interfax news agency the President would have a bypass. Yeltsin aides said he may consider temporarily surrendering his powers to Chernomyrdin, as the constitution requires in the event of extended incapacitation...
...news of his ill health long enough for the country to enter what is by Russian standards something akin to political normality. Six months ago, after all, the favorites to succeed Yeltsin were people like Communist Party leader Gennadi Zyuganov or nationalist extremist Vladimir Zhirinovsky. The main contenders now, Chernomyrdin and Lebed, or perhaps Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov, are less menacing to Russia's post-communist ruling class...
This fact will not prevent a tough and perhaps nasty fight to succeed Yeltsin. In the short term at least, Chernomyrdin and Lebed will probably fight it out, as Luzhkov watches warily in the wings. Chernomyrdin seems to enjoy Yeltsin's confidence: he is the only government official who has been allowed a face-to-face meeting with the President in recent weeks...