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...emerging that is a repetition of what happened ((in the Balkans)) at the beginning of the century, when major powers came into conflict. If the U.S. Congress insists on a unilateral lifting of the arms embargo against the Muslims, how can I convince Zuygyanov and Zhirinovsky and the State Duma to keep economic sanctions against Serbia? This could produce a situation where the U.S. may be drawn into supporting one side and Russia into supporting the other. We have to give serious thought to this doomsday scenario...
Zhirinovsky's momentum, moreover, may already be wearing thin. "He is still functioning on the level of the street-corner rallies we were involved in before the election victory," says Kobelev. "This kind of streetwise showing-off is inappropriate in the Duma." In April an argument in parliament between Zhirinovsky and dissident L.D.P. Deputy Vladimir Borzhyuk degenerated into fisticuffs. At one point, Zhirinovsky was seen actually banging Borzhyuk's head against the wall. Entertained as they now are by such debauched antics, the Russian public could eventually grow tired of his wild style and write him off as yet another...
...major setback for Russian President Boris Yeltsin, the State Duma, or lower house of parliament, granted amnesty to the hard-liners who occupied the parliament building in Moscow in October as well as to the leaders of the failed 1991 coup against then President Mikhail Gorbachev. Yeltsin had no | power to veto the resolution, which quickly freed from prison some of his arch-enemies, including former parliament speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov and former Vice President Alexander Rutskoi. Yeltsin's first speech to the new parliament, with a call for "more justice, more safety, more confidence," was unenthusiastically received by many lawmakers...
...Duma, parliament's lower house, celebrated the pain-relieving approach by voting its members a pay increase, free travel on planes and trains, free apartments in Moscow, free telephones and 24-hour limousine service. "Are you crazy?" demanded populist politician Nikolai Travkin, pointing to the government deficit already in the trillions of rubles. The other parliamentarians ignored...
...loyalties will divide if Yeltsin and Zhirinovsky bump heads. "Until now, the army has proved itself to be very mature," says German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel. "But after the latest events, we can only hope it stays that way." Strange as it may seem, Zhirinovsky's elevation to a Duma seat may be the best thing for Yeltsin: better to have "Vladimir the Terrible" spouting off in the parliament than rabble rousing in the streets. Then again, Zhirinovsky is now well poised to use his seat in parliament as a launching pad for his presidential ambitions...