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...another perils-of-Boris power struggle, this time between President Yeltsin and conservative Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin over the makeup of the new Cabinet, Chernomyrdin effectively won. Or at least Yeltsin beat a tactical retreat. The government's famous young reform ministers were mostly dumped or demoted. In their place arrived a group of Soviet-era leftovers, production managers from the old military-industrial complex who favor salary increases and handouts to money-losing state industries. "The period of market romanticism has ended for us," Chernomyrdin crowed. "We must make our people's life easier...
...fact, Yeltsin and Chernomyrdin, the top men in Russian politics, are beginning to resemble the eagle on the state seal: it has two heads facing in opposite directions. The Prime Minister, a burly former head of the Soviet gas industry who used to wear baggy gray suits, is now garbed in American-style blue suits, white shirts and photogenic red ties. He has assumed the role of spokesman for Russians who protested reform with their antigovernment votes in December, and he is apparently positioning himself for a run in the 1996 presidential election. He and Yeltsin warred repeatedly last week...
...spending central-bank chief Viktor Gerashchenko. Three other reform ministers lost the rank of Deputy Prime Minister. Only one new economic thinker remained in the Cabinet: Anatoli Chubais, who heads the program that is successfully privatizing small businesses. "I see no tragedy in some people leaving the government," sniffed Chernomyrdin. "It is a natural process...
...contrary, Fyodorov responded, "this is a turn back." He forecast the government of Chernomyrdin and Gerashchenko would push inflation, now running at about 20% a month, up to 30% by April. "A collapse is inevitable," he said. The daily Izvestia agreed: "The government of reformers has ceased to exist." Two top Western economists, Jeffrey Sachs of Harvard University and Anders Aslund of Sweden, resigned as advisers to the government...
...even the most world-weary Muscovites find diversion in the antics of their politicians. They are particularly bemused by the squabble about where the new parliament is supposed to meet. With a Russian Orthodox bishop in attendance to offer his blessings and perhaps exorcise the ghosts of the past, Chernomyrdin hastily occupied a renovated office suite last week at the White House, the former parliament building damaged last October when armed forces loyal to Yeltsin put down a revolt of hard-line deputies. The move was intended to forestall any claims on the space by the new Federal Assembly, whose...