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...relationship that matters most right now is the one he began six years ago with former Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, his partner on what was called the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission. The two tackled tricky trade disputes (over frozen chicken legs, for one), worked out arrangements for cooperation in space, negotiated safeguards on plutonium and lunched over hot dogs and sauerkraut at Katz's Deli in New York City. Gore put such faith in Chernomyrdin that at times it seemed a blind spot. When the CIA produced a report offering what it called "conclusive evidence of [Chernomyrdin's] personal corruption...
Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott could see a glimmer of progress. Viktor Chernomyrdin, the former Russian Prime Minister whom Boris Yeltsin has appointed as his Kosovo envoy, was inching last Wednesday night toward compromise. Chernomyrdin had signed off on a sketch of what postwar Kosovo's government might look like, and, nearby, a Russian general had spread out a map with lines drawn showing how armed peacekeepers might be deployed. Peace, Talbott hoped, was closer. But then a note was passed into the Kremlin meeting. Yeltsin had just sacked his Prime Minister, Yevgeni Primakov. Chernomyrdin--whom Yeltsin had fired...
...Whether Chernomyrdin, Yeltsin or anyone else in the Russian government could refocus was the question now confronting Washington. For five weeks Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has pinned her peace hopes on what she called a "double-magnet" strategy: pulling Russia toward NATO's demands so that it, in turn, would tug Belgrade. But Administration aides were worried that in the current chaos, nobody under Yeltsin "would be left to cut the deal...
...Chernomyrdin is fighting battles of his own. The Russian is irritated with Milosevic's and Clinton's intransigence. His aides say Chernomyrdin has formed a picture of Milosevic as a complex leader split between two desires: to save face and to save his own skin. As the air war intensifies, Chernomyrdin aides say, Milosevic has started sleeping in a different bed every night and swapping cell phones for fear NATO will use them to pinpoint him for an air strike...
...Green Party, part of the government's ruling coalition, broke ranks and called for a "limited halt" to the bombing. To placate U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who has been pressing for another independent broker in the peace talks, Albright enlisted Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari to possibly join Chernomyrdin's shuttle...