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While most Moscow papers and commentators praised the Kremlin's openness, the highbrow daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta noted that "had the news been known before the presidential elections, the results would have been substantially different." This may be precisely what Yeltsin and his entourage had in mind. At the price of frequent political embarrassment and perhaps some cost to Yeltsin's chances of recovery, they suppressed news of his ill health long enough for the country to enter what is by Russian standards something akin to political normality. Six months ago, after all, the favorites to succeed Yeltsin were people like...
...Wojciech Mazowiecki, 38, business desk editor and news/managing editor, Gazeta Wyborcza, Warsaw, Poland. Mazowiecki intends to explore issues surrounding freedom of expression, the right to privacy and the right to know...
...enthusiastic crowds in the hinterlands, but he faces a much tougher audience in Moscow. Few urban sophisticates have time anymore for the kitchen conversations about the Russian soul that were a staple of intellectual life when Solzhenitsyn first lived in the country. A savage commentary in the daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta proposed what to do with this troubling revivalist preacher: "Give him mothballs! And more mothballs! And put him to rest...
...communist idea in our country is quickly becoming part of the past," says Vitali Tretyakov, editor of the reform newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta. "It offers nothing that will improve people's lives...
Many Poles, weary of Tyminski's crude emotionalism and obsessive anti- Semitic rantings, heaved a sigh of relief. His special enemy is ex- Solidarity activist Adam Michnik, editor in chief of Warsaw's Gazeta Wyborcza, whose paper noted two months ago how quickly Tyminski had supported the Soviet coup. The next day Tyminski sent a chicken carcass to the paper, characterizing it as carrion for carrion. Tyminski's political role is marginal in any case. The Poles' real concern is their economy, which has failed to rebound since the fall of communism...