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...privatize land and modernize industry. They say reforms that have produced painful side effects like 2,500% annual inflation, a 19% drop in gross domestic product last year and the threat of vastly increased unemployment are more than the Russian people can bear. Since December, the parliament, led by Khasbulatov, has been hacking away at Yeltsin's powers, determined to stall or divert the President's efforts to turn Russia's subsidized, militarized economy into a free market. One form of unemployment the Deputies particularly oppose is their own; they have no enthusiasm for new elections in which they might...
Nevertheless, Khasbulatov insisted as last week began that Yeltsin had violated the constitution when he claimed "special rule" over the country pending a national referendum on April 25. Khasbulatov, a former professor of economics, demanded a judgment by the Constitutional Court. Even though the decree Yeltsin said he had signed had not been published, the court obliged, ruling that the President could not legally declare one-man rule or call a referendum, though he could ask the nation for a vote of confidence...
...SATURDAY MORNING BEfore Yeltsin's speech, disgruntled officers of the Moscow military district met in the parliament house to pledge their support to Yeltsin's archenemy, Ruslan Khasbulatov, the chairman of the Supreme Soviet. Vice President Rutskoi, a former general who is a hero of the Afghan war and has become more bold in challenging his boss, has far more influence with the troops than does his nominal chief Yeltsin -- and has political ambitions of his own. Of course if Yeltsin is impeached he will automatically become President. If troops do go into the streets and take sides...
...months, Yeltsin had tried repeatedly to negotiate an accord on power sharing between the executive and legislative branches, but Khasbulatov, once a Yeltsin protege and advocate of reform, paid no attention. Even on the eve of last week's Congress, the presidential team gave fifty-fifty odds that a compromise could be reached. They were hopelessly optimistic. congressional Deputies who filed into the hall were so sour about reform that they refused even to consider a motion to remove Karl Marx's rallying cry, "Workers of the World, Unite," from the Russian Federation's national emblem. In the face...
...society. The unadventurous new Prime Minister, Victor Chernomyrdin, a veteran industrial manager, speaks of the need for a "pragmatic, down-to-earth" approach to change. That certainly means slowing, if not necessarily ending, reforms. Russia cannot be effectively governed in fits and starts. Sooner rather than later, Yeltsin and Khasbulatov will have to find a way out of the political stalemate they have created. They cannot continue to coexist like a divorced couple under the same roof for long...