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...financial backing for the Russian army. Yeltsin proposes a Chechen republic still under Russian dominion, but with control over its own natural resources and finances. "The Chechens probably won't like this first proposal," reports TIME Moscow correspondent Sally Donnelly, "since they have been fighting all this time to establish an independent republic. But at least the Russians are starting to talk. They are thinking about how to deal with the problem, offering concrete proposals. This trial balloon may keep the Chechens negotiating until the elections, which is what the Russians really want right now, anyway." Donnelly attributes Yeltsin...
...financial backing for the Russian army. Yeltsin proposes a Chechen republic still under Russian dominion, but with control over its own natural resources and finances. "The Chechens probably won't like this first proposal," reports TIME Moscow correspondent Sally Donnelly, "since they have been fighting all this time to establish an independent republic. But at least the Russians are starting to talk. They are thinking about how to deal with the problem, offering concrete proposals. This trial balloon may keep the Chechens negotiating until the elections, which is what the Russians really want right now, anyway." Donnelly attributes Yeltsin...
Journalists are central to our ability to establish and maintain a high standard of ethical behavior in public officials. But they bear an acute responsibility in making judgments about fairness, including judgments about the extent to which lapses by public officials deserve exposure. In this case, Admiral Boorda's conduct--in particular his correction of a mistake that was not characteristic during his 30-year career--seems to me not to have warranted the scrutiny it received a year later...
...shouldn't freedom outweigh the drawbacks of reform? Not in Russia, which has no tradition of viewing freedom as a value. Alexander Yakovlev, who was a top adviser to Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet President, once put it this way: "We're not just trying to establish a reformed system. We're trying to dismantle the 1,000-year-old Russian paradigm of unfreedom." Trying--and perhaps failing once more. The words Ivan Turgenev wrote in The Dream more than a century ago, some years after Alexander II's decision to free the serfs, could apply today: "And once again...
...enigmatic and vague when it suits his purposes, but his books and articles reveal a moral absolutist who sees Russia in a death struggle with the U.S. When George Bush spoke of a new world order, Zyuganov labeled the idea "geopolitical sabotage," nothing but a plot to "establish the West's global supremacy." Capitalism, Zyuganov has written, "doesn't fit in our flesh and blood, in our everyday life, in our habits and in the mentality of our society...