Word: kiriyenko
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...usual, says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. If deputies are asked to vote openly, the likely outcome will be dissolution of the legislature and new elections. The Communist-led opposition is committed to a third rejection of Boris Yeltsin's youthful nominee for prime minister, Sergei Kiriyenko, which would force Yeltsin to close down the Duma and hold new elections. "Despite their fierce public resolve, a secret vote will allow those in the opposition whose votes have been bought, or who don't want to face new elections, to simply confirm Kiriyenko in secret," says Quinn-Judge...
...only did Sergei Kiriyenko fall 80 votes short of confirmation, the opposition mounted a court challenge against his renomination by Yeltsin. "In these situations, people can become hostage to their own propaganda," says Zarakhovich. "The opposition may have gone further down this road than they had intended to." While dissolving the legislature has been Yeltsin's trump card, "the opposition may be confident enough of winning new elections to fight all the way," says Zarakhovich. "And this is Russia, where emotions can easily take over rationally laid plans...
...Friday Yeltsin named his choice as the new Prime Minister. He is Sergei Kiriyenko, 35, who had been busy filling in at the job for four days. Kiriyenko is a potential reformer, a petroleum expert who held the post of Minister of Fuel and Energy in the old Cabinet. He's a former communist youth leader and oil-company executive from the reform-oriented city of Nizhni Novgorod. He arrived in Moscow last year, along with Boris Nemtsov, who became a First Deputy Prime Minister. Nemtsov, the former mayor of Nizhni Novgorod, is one of Yeltsin's favorites...
...Duma must approve the President's nominee and will almost certainly go along with Kiriyenko. The communists who dominate the parliament are complaining that he is too young and too inexperienced. But they are expected to accept him in due course. If they reject the President's choice three times, Yeltsin can dissolve parliament and call new elections. Most members of the Duma will not want to risk their jobs on the issue, so they might vote against Kiriyenko once or twice, then accept...
...diplomatically. But, he adds, the pair "are paying due attention to the situation, and will respond appropriately if the time comes." If Yeltsin does have to step aside, then the responsibility of running the government will fall on the shoulders of the new and untested Acting Prime Minister, Sergei Kiriyenko...