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...major rivals, legislative speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov. Ironically, the so-called Cardinal's Guard was originally formed to protect the Russian legislative building after last year's failed coup. Yeltsin began calling the force an "illegal armed unit" after it was deployed at the offices of the newspaper Izvestia -- once the official Soviet mouthpiece but today a Yeltsin bastion whose ownership is at the center of a dispute among hard-line lawmakers, the government and the newspaper's own staff...
...socialist faith and his dedication to the Union -- always the Union -- of Soviet Socialist Republics. His ability to go only so far, and no further, made it inevitable that he would be the initiator, not the final arbiter, of democratic change in the former Soviet empire. Said the daily Izvestia: "He did all he could...
...cannot indoctrinate youth with the slogans of adults," Vessenski says. "[Komsommorsky Pravda] had some possibility to write things that [the Soviet newspapers] Izvestia and Pravda didn't write...
That view was reflected even more strongly in an Izvestia article by Georgi Arbatov, the noted Americanologist and former Gorbachev adviser. He warned that opponents of perestroika "have tried to exploit natural discontent and worry to turn the clock back. They are trying to blackmail our parliament, politicians and even the President." If so, the principal blackmail victim was proving no mean shakedown artist himself...
...conscripts be pressed into service at the ovens. The list of excuses -- breakdowns and labor problems at factories, outdated equipment, transport troubles and an unexpected rise in demand for bread -- sounded all too familiar to Russians, who are already fuming over the scarcity of cigarettes. As the government daily Izvestia sardonically noted: "We should not be surprised by the fact that yet one more item has gone on the list of shortages -- we should be surprised that anything can still be found in the stores...