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...close. The legislature's term expires in December, emboldening it to face down a president whose autocratic constitutional power includes the right to summarily dissolve parliament and call new elections. "For the Communists, it's convenient to have a confrontation with Yeltsin in which he dissolves the Duma," says Zarakhovich. "It will make them heroes and strengthen their chances of being reelected...
...made clear it won't give Russia a cent until a new package of reform legislation has been passed," says TIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich. "There's no way a cabinet that doesn't yet exist will put together that legislation and pass it through a hostile Duma in time for the IMF's July meeting...
...unlike berating a man for failing to defy gravity -- but that's not borne out by his choice of successor: "The new appointment as prime minister, Sergei Stepashin, is a man without any economic background but with a well-deserved reputation for bungling," says Quinn-Judge. "The Duma is unlikely to approve Stepashin, and that sets the stage for another period of prolonged political paralysis in Russia." One Yeltsin objective may, however backfire: The ailing president had hoped that by firing Primakov he could undercut the prime minister's presidential aspirations in the 2000 election; but Yeltsin's approval ratings...
...improve his chances, Primakov has been plucking weeds from the U.S.-Russia agenda. Last week he took steps to have the Duma ratify the long-delayed START II treaty, which will slash U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals by two-thirds. And his Nuclear Energy Minister hinted that the country might curtail some of the atomic work with Iran that prompted U.S. sanctions. The two nations have some clearly irreconcilable differences--Iraq and Kosovo, in particular. At home millions of Russians are souring on the U.S. A U.S. Information Agency poll found that 75% of Russians believe the U.S. is "using...
...rough year for Vladimir Zhirinovsky, madcap leader of Russia's ultra-nationalist Liberal Democratic Party. Last month his colleagues banned him from the Duma floor after he called for the communists "to be shot." But things may be picking up with the publication of his latest book, The ABCs of Sex. At a publicity event for the 222-page tome, the self-proclaimed "sexual knight of all the girls of Russia" proposed a new domestic sex industry as the panacea for the country's economic ills...