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Even if those programs have not yet appeared, it is possible to discern where the communists are headed by studying the legislation the party is preparing for action in the Duma. One proposal calls for renationalizing industries "that have been privatized contrary to law, the rights of labor collectives and the interests of the country." Another would establish workers' councils in every enterprise and give them the right to control "production, finances and distribution and uses of income." Other new laws would impose state-regulated prices, restore central planning of the economy and give the state a monopoly over foreign...
MOSCOW: The Russian Duma Friday demonstrated its opposition to reform by voting 250-98 for a resolution calling the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union illegal. The measure also called for a referendum on resurrecting the onetime superpower. "The parliament has no real political power," says TIME's Sally B. Donnelly. "So they are looking for cheap political points, getting their names in the paper. The move is indicative of bitterness; many of the Communists and Nationalists in the Duma are angry about the ruined Russian economy and the loss of superpower status." The vote has raised tensions among reformers...
...firing Chubais, Yeltsin was looking to his own political future, in particular the Russian presidential election scheduled for June. He was responding to the results of December's vote for the Russian parliament, the Duma, in which most successful candidates had campaigned as opponents of the measures with which Chubais was associated. The American government was thus, in effect, urging Yeltsin to commit political suicide...
...future is clearly at risk from communists and nationalists, that statement provides a good indication that Yeltsin will be a candidate. The strongest challenge to the reformers comes from a restructured Communist Party that rose from oblivion to win the most votes in the Dec. 17 elections for the Duma, the national parliament. Although its 22% showing was not enough to control the Duma, it gave the party and its leader, Gennadi Zyuganov, a strong starting point in the race for the presidency--which is the real center of power in post-Soviet Russia...
...fired last year for mishandling another prominent hostage standoff with Chechen rebels. "This is a very ominous sign," says Zarakhovich. "He was one of the key people who engineered the war in Chechnya, and his policy was to kill all the Chechens." Beyond that, the newly-elected Communist Duma starts its first session Tuesday, and few in the plurality would treat the Chechens lightly. "Ever since the war stopped, this story has really been in Moscow," says Zarakhovich. "If the federal government doesn't do anything to quell the fire, I don't know who will...