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...Mayor Anatoly Sobchak, a hero of the resistance to August's aborted hard-line coup, reformers in the city are trying to pull St. Petersburg out of Moscow's shadow and transform it into a gateway to the West. Some even suggest returning the political capital to St. Petersburg, though Sobchak says his task is "to revive St. Petersburg as the financial, cultural and scientific capital of Russia." For a precedent, Sobchak turns to the city's founder, Peter the Great, the Czar who set out to westernize the backward Russian Empire. "For 10 years Peter the Great tried...
Just days after Boris Yeltsin risked his life to defeat the August coup, anonymous White House sources were leaking contempt and disdain for Yeltsin. A week earlier, the man had saved not only his country but the entire Bush foreign policy (which had placed all its bets on Gorbachev) and Washington was already dumping...
...that the White House favored the Stalinist coupmongers (although the President's initial reaction to the coup was, as Margaret Thatcher would have said, wobbly). But the Administration's obvious favorite in Moscow is not Yeltsin but Gorbachev...
WORLD: One Army Coup Too Many...
Which is, of course, utterly beside the point. All the posturing just ignored the symbolism. Members of Congress seemed in some cases to be genuinely surprised at the rage the revelations unleashed. Why is everyone interested in this, they wondered, and not my views on the coup in Haiti? All of which served to confirm the impression of a body of lawmakers out of touch with the lives of their constituents and in the habit of placing themselves above the law. This is the Congress, after all, that defends affirmative action and passes laws banning racial discrimination in hiring...