Word: khasbulatov
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time in his ) presidency. Faced with continued opposition from ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky and his conservative and communist followers in parliament, Yeltsin has been forced to retreat from the grand promises of reform he made to Clinton in January. Last week the parliament voted overwhelmingly to grant amnesty to Ruslan Khasbulatov and Alexander Rutskoi, two leaders of the failed 1993 uprising against Yeltsin's government, as well as to the men who plotted the aborted 1991 coup against Mikhail Gorbachev. Though Yeltsin's aides insisted that the parliament had overstepped its authority, hard-liners Khasbulatov and Rutskoi were released from prison...
...liners who occupied the parliament building in Moscow in October as well as to the leaders of the failed 1991 coup against then President Mikhail Gorbachev. Yeltsin had no | power to veto the resolution, which quickly freed from prison some of his arch-enemies, including former parliament speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov and former Vice President Alexander Rutskoi. Yeltsin's first speech to the new parliament, with a call for "more justice, more safety, more confidence," was unenthusiastically received by many lawmakers...
Inside the building, a rump Congress of the People's Deputies began a hastily convened session by impeaching Yeltsin, but demoralized lawmakers were soon squabbling among themselves about whether to get rid of parliamentary chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov too. Yeltsin's government began to show signs of impatience with the siege, blocking access to the motor pool, keeping out fresh food supplies and, finally, turning off the electricity. As the crowds outside dwindled to several hundred diehards, groups of Deputies gathered by candlelight to plot their next move. But the standoff seemed all but over by week...
Vice President Alexander Rutskoi, once Yeltsin's ally, dismissed the referendum as a "sociological poll," and parliament chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov said it had "brought no losers or winners" -- just a weakening of the state. Yeltsin, however, took his victory as a mandate to begin strengthening his political clout. He summoned regional leaders to Moscow to present a new draft constitution that would turn Russia into a presidential republic with a two-chamber parliament to replace the present Congress of People's Deputies...
...Though Khasbulatov is still his main foe, Yeltsin landed his heaviest blows last week on Rutskoi. Charging that the Vice President "is categorically not in agreement with reform," Yeltsin said he intends to dismiss him from his position as supervisor of agricultural programs. Rutskoi has also discovered that his armored Mercedes has been replaced with an old Volga sedan, his security detail cut back sharply and his personal physician dismissed...