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MOSCOW: Railing at rampant military corruption, Boris Yeltsin primed himself for a political comeback, firing Defense Minister Igor Rodionov and the country's top military commander for failing to cut costs and slash Russia's overmanned armed forces. "I am not just unsatisfied. I am outraged," Yeltsin lectured the Defense Council in a nationally televised dressing down. Acknowledging that he has been somewhat "removed" from running the country recently (a state of affairs popularly linked to everything from alcoholism to senility), Yeltsin told the defense chiefs that he is now back in charge, a thinly veiled threat in a country...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: A report that malfunctioning control systems have switched some missiles into "combat mode" on several occasions is raising new worries about the safety of Russia's rapidly deteriorating nuclear arsenal. According to the Washington Times, a CIA report says Russian Defense Minister Igor Rodionov warned Russian government officials in February and March that the country's nuclear control equipment will soon collapse without much-needed funding for repairs and upgrades. While the study rates the risk of an accidental nuclear attack as low under "normal circumstances," even one accidental launch could prove deadly. Although Russian missile technically...
...both productions) but also by three dancers, enabling Glass and Marshall to illustrate various aspects of their personalities simultaneously. Indeed, Marshall's fluid, shifting, molting steps stand in marked contrast to Glass's crystalline music, scored for three electronic keyboards and recalling the textures, if not the melodies, of Igor Stravinsky's Les Noces. The collaborators--Cocteau obviously excepted--call their work a dance-opera spectacle. But Les Enfants Terribles is neither grandiose nor grand, merely the work of three artists, whether quick or dead, at the top of their form...
...with his family, a source close to Yeltsin said, and started listening to his daughter. Chubais set up a new inner campaign team. Numbering fewer than 10 people, they called themselves the analytical group. In addition to Chubais and Dyachenko, the group included the head of Russian Independent Television, Igor Malashenko, and Yeltsin's chief aide, Viktor Ilyushin. The President's daughter was no figurehead, her colleagues recall. "She's very bright, she learns fast, and she retains everything she has learned," says one. She also played a pivotal role during the campaign: it was Dyachenko who took bad news...
...over the country's security and military structures. And they were clearly unnerved last week when Lebed denounced the Defense Ministry's intention to reduce the size of the airborne forces, including some of Russia's last remaining elite troops. Lebed, a former airborne officer, railed against Defense Minister Igor Rodionov's planned cuts. They were "criminal," he said, thus bringing into the open a monthlong rift with his one-time protege in the Defense Ministry. A senior airborne officer also spoke out against the cuts. He was removed last week at the same time as Lebed. The officer...