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...democratic supporters. While the international rebuffs may be a sign that Zhirinovsky may find it difficult to use other countries as soapboxes for airing his incendiary views, the most his trip seems to have provoked at home is a hilarious set of lampoons by Moscow's most popular comedian, Gennadi Khazanov, who draws great guffaws with his impersonations of "Vladimir Volfovich...
...Congress, later described as an attempted "bribe," by letting them keep their privileges and salaries until their term ends in 1995. The Deputies condemned the plan as a cynical attempt to circumvent the Congress. "Only cynical people could have come up with this," raged conservative Deputy Gennadi Benov. "We could accept this only if we are a Congress of political suicides." Opposition Deputy Vladimir Isakov immediately proposed an impeachment motion and said to Khasbulatov, "We are sick and tired of your unscrupulousness, of your ploys. The President and the speaker are the two people here who have...
...would be foolhardy for the West to turn its back on Russia just because the ideological conflicts of the cold war are over. The burden that Yeltsin must carry is too heavy for one man. If he should falter, the consequences will reverberate around the world. Russia, says Gennadi Burbulis, Yeltsin's chief political strategist, has become "the prism through which a universal longing for global change has been focused...
With the cold war allegedly over, U.S. Olympic officials tried to be magnanimous, all the while pointing out that the Unified Team, led by their forceful trainer Gennadi Turetsky, had profited handsomely from a wealth of new data published by American sports institutions. "Our team is doing as well as expected," said the U.S. head coach, Dennis Pursley. "But the days when one nation can dominate the world of swimming are past." Still, with 11 of 31 gold medals, the U.S. firmly outdistanced its closest competitors. The Unified Team captured six, Hungary five and China four. The conspicuous loser...
...most Thursdays, President (and Prime Minister) Yeltsin takes his place at the head of the table. The chair on his left is reserved for Vice President Alexander Rutskoi. Gennadi Burbulis, Yeltsin's top political strategist, and First Deputy Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, the point man of Russia's economic reforms, sit on the right. The old Politburo table had to be lengthened to seat the 35 ministers in the government and 30 state-committee chairmen. Most of Yeltsin's staff must scramble for chairs along the walls...