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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...
...President is going to be so stubborn, he will definitely have to go. Do you really think the Russian state cannot exist without this President? There will be another President. America did not turn upside down because Bush left office. So why should anything happen if Yeltsin or Khasbulatov should...
Parliament and its aggressive leader, Ruslan Khasbulatov, will be mounting an attack of their own. When Yeltsin does not come up with the required 53 million votes, they may demand his resignation or try again to vote him out of office, as they almost did last month. The Constitutional Court's Zorkin could rule that the President should resign in favor of the Vice President, Alexander Rutskoi, another anti-Yeltsinite...
...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...