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...those who fear his unpredictability, Zhirinovsky has gone out of his way to show that he is "just another politician and not a crazy nut," says Mitrofanov. How exactly? "By asking for the petty favors all politicians want." In Zhirinovsky's case, this meant meeting with Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin to request some specific goodies. According to Mitrofanov, Zhirinovsky asked for--and got--"a new car with a flashing blue light [to zip past Moscow's notorious traffic jams], a new dacha in the countryside, some special health cards for his family and one or two loans for some close...
Panel-member Sergei Kolsenikov, a senior adviser to Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, said Yeltsin will prevail in the June elections because of his political record...
...Yeltsin's Prime Minister, Victor Chernomyrdin, visits Washington this week, it is appropriate, indeed essential, for the American government to make its views known on an area of Russian policy in which the U.S. and other countries have a legitimate interest as well as some influence: foreign policy. It is essential to insist on Russian compliance with treaties limiting nuclear and non-nuclear armaments and also vital to insist on Russian respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of its neighbors that were once republics of the Soviet Union and are now independent countries--especially the Baltic states and Ukraine...
...office. "I am in perfect health," he told reporters. "I came here so everyone could see I was in perfect form." It was a startling contrast to the TV images of November that showed a visibly pale and wobbly Yeltsin going through the motions of meeting Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin...
...rebels now demand that Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, who diffused a similar situation last June, take part in the negotiations. Unlike that crisis, Moscow this time has so far refused to enter talks. Russian President Boris Yeltsin is taking a hard-line approach. In Paris to attend the funeral of Francois Mitterrand, Yeltsin said he would agree to the rebel demand that Russian troops leave Chechnya, but only after the rebels agree to disarm. This essentially has been the Russian position for several months and a chief sticking point when peace talks collapsed last year...