Word: coups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smooth in Russia. As President Boris Yeltsin prepares to do battle with hard-line opponents at the Congress of People's Deputies this week, Russians are braced for another bruising power struggle. After seven years of political turbulence, the country is highly sensitized to trouble. Rumors of a coup, a dictatorship, social upheaval have raced through the capital. But something else has happened as well. Most of Russia's 150 million citizens are taking the latest crisis in stride, indifferent to all the fuss in Moscow. However imperfect their experiment in democracy has proved so far, they have gained confidence...
...things now stand, Yeltsin is saddled with what he views as an obstreperous bunch of foot draggers until their terms expire in 1995. He could try to use the the special powers that the parliament granted him after the abortive coup attempt in August 1991 to disband the legislature altogether and impose direct presidential rule. But many fear such a risky step, and parliamentarians were quick to call Yeltsin's bluff by summoning the People's Deputies into session -- over his heated opposition -- on Dec. 1, the very day his mandate to rule by decree expires...
...sporadic negotiations for withdrawal. Russian President Boris Yeltsin, faced with nationalist and economic pressures of his own, halted troop departures to punish Latvia and Estonia for what he termed "blatant discrimination" against ethnic Russians. Watching the political turmoil in Moscow, Baltic leaders are plagued by the fear that a coup could lead hard-liners to use the troops to retake the former republics by force...
...most powerful. A former Communist Party apparatchik and adviser to each of the past three Soviet leaders, Volsky, 60, has the assured air of a man who has walked the corridors of the Kremlin many times. Holding only a nominal party office at the time of the August 1991 coup, he escaped the guilt by association that taints other former high party officials. Many observers now consider him a future Prime Minister -- a post he has repeatedly denied seeking. "I have said 29 times I don't want the job, but every day the press says otherwise," he complains, waving...
Somewhere in Moscow, a group of men sit around a table, their faces grim and / resolute as they conspire to launch a coup. That, at least, is what many Russians fear. Warnings of an imminent overthrow of the Yeltsin government come almost daily in the capital, from all sides of the political spectrum. Whether the messenger is a top government official, a parliamentary leader, a member of an opposition party or an ordinary Russian with a gut instinct, the message is always the same: dark forces are at work devising a scheme to take power and install a dictatorship...