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...develop into a marketable candidate. A second idea floating around parliament would involve scrapping an interim general election and allowing a special assembly to choose a successor. Rivals Chernomyrdin and Communist Party leader Gennadi Zyuganov each believe it could work in his favor. A third proposal, aired by Vyacheslav Kostikov, Yeltsin's former press secretary, would delegate part of the President's powers to a council of several senior advisers until the election...
...hopes last fall for major reforms were always overly optimistic. The President's onetime press secretary, Vyacheslav Kostikov, says in an as yet unpublished memoir that Yeltsin's mood, morale and appetite for work all took a turn for the worse as early as 1994. The nasty little secret in the history of Boris Yeltsin's Kremlin is that the President was in decline long before his health began to fail openly last year...
...hardfisted style of leadership, surrounding himself with ever more authoritarian aides. Last week, after bragging about how much he has done to promote a "genuinely free" media, he fired the head of Russia's state-owned television network. (The station, it seemed, was engaged in too much muckraking.) Vyachelsav Kostikov, who once served Yeltsin as press secretary, said that for the President, "power is his ideology, his friend, his concubine and his mistress...
...American anger about the Russians' paying Ames to reveal the names of double agents seemed baffling because, in exposing the fact that the U.S. is continuing to spy on Russia, Ames' arrest proves that America is no innocent bystander when it comes to espionage. Yeltsin's chief spokesman, Vyacheslav Kostikov, warned Washington against "returning to the psychology of the cold war and whipping up distrust and a new wave of spy mania...
Yeltsin will also have to rethink his strategy. The President can no longer afford to dissipate his energies by constantly squabbling with the parliament. A new posture of conciliation was hinted at last week when Kremlin spokesman Vyacheslav Kostikov publicly allowed that parts of the Liberal Democratic and Communist programs "quite correspond to the social aspects of the President's policies -- that is, the social policy of the state, patriotism, making Russia great...