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...there may be too many to round up. Russian authorities confirmed Thursday that an overnight explosion that killed 23 people and injured more than 150 was caused by a 450-pound bomb, opening another round of speculation as to the identity of the perpetrators. Although a caller to the Interfax news agency claimed the attack was a "response to the bombing of villages in Chechnya and Dagestan," that?s unlikely to close the betting on the identity of the perpetrators...
...heart problems had just been discovered. But he has been a sick man for years, and his need for heart surgery has been apparent to foreign specialists for months. He did not say exactly what the operation would be, though a prominent Russian heart surgeon later told the Interfax news agency the President would have a bypass. Yeltsin aides said he may consider temporarily surrendering his powers to Chernomyrdin, as the constitution requires in the event of extended incapacitation...
MOSCOW: Just days before Boris Yeltsin's triumphant re- inauguration, his economics minister broke some unpleasant but not unexpected news: It may take longer than expected to deliver on all of those generous pledges promised during the campaign. Yevgeny Yasin, in an interview with the Russian Interfax news service, assured Russians that the government would deliver eventually. "A lot of economists and analysts are saying the only way Yeltsin's going to make good on his promises is to print more money," says TIME's Andrew Keith. That would cover the debt, but reintroduce the specter of inflation. Higher inflation...
...that reigned last week, when reports that former Chechen leader Jokhar Dudayev had or had not been slain, the Russian press is now issuing conflicting reports of the death of Dudayev's successor. The Russian news agency ITAR-Tass reported Monday that Yandarbiyev was dead, while the news agency Interfax insisted that it was Yardarbiyev's nephew who perished in an attack. There has as yet been no confirmation of Yandarbiyev's death. "One version of the story has Yandarbiyev killed in a shootout between rival Chechen rebel groups," reports TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich. "What is clear is that...
...rebels, who earlier freed most of the 2,000 hostages they had held overnight in Kizlyar in return for safe passage back to the Chechen republic, have threatened to start shooting the 160 remaining hostages unless the Russian Interior Ministry allows them to use another route. Although the Interfax news agency reports that Russian helicopters have fired several shots at the bus convoy, Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin promised that no action would be taken that would endanger the hostages' lives: "We aren't going to start frontal attacks, or act according to an eye-for-an-eye principle, since...