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...Chechnya limited to air strikes, Moscow is in danger of lurching right back into the quagmire of three years ago. Russia rolled tanks up to the border Tuesday and bombed the rebel republic for the sixth consecutive day, as tens of thousands of refugees poured out of Chechnya. The Kremlin vowed to stamp out the Islamic rebels it holds responsible for a wave of terrorist bomb attacks on apartment buildings throughout Russia, and has accused the Chechen government of aiding the rebels. But despite the air campaign, Moscow is reluctant to resume the 1994-96 conflict that claimed at least...
...election, and reputedly handles the Yeltsin family finances--to misappropriate hard-currency receipts diverted from the Russian airline Aeroflot. In the other instance a Swiss-based construction company called Mabetex allegedly paid bribes to government officials, notably Pavel Borodin, another Yeltsin intimate and manager of the Kremlin's vast properties, to win lucrative renovation contracts. One witness has told Swiss authorities he saw credit-card receipts for personal purchases made by Yeltsin and his daughters paid by Mabetex. Yeltsin, Borodin, Benex and Mabetex all deny the accusations. And the Russian President even repeated his denial two weeks ago directly...
...true that political conservatives are outnumbered here, both among the student body and on the Faculty. Harvard used to be nicknamed the "Kremlin on the Charles." The Harvard Salient, a conservative biweekly, polled professors a few years ago and found only a handful who would admit to being registered Republicans. It surprised no one when Bill Clinton thrashed Bob Dole in a 1996 campus poll conducted by The Crimson...
...panic in Moscow isn?t on the streets; it?s in the Kremlin. Top Yeltsin aides have been stoking Russia?s rumor mill all week, hinting variously that their boss is considering declaring a state of emergency, planning to resign this weekend and call early presidential elections, or looking to simply rely on his familiar when-in-doubt-fire-the-prime-minister formula. Yeltsin aides are also warning that he?s facing another life-threatening health crisis and even ?- in the case of one bizarre story leaked from within the Kremlin ?- that the Russian president died last week. "There...
Memo to Moscow: Want a bit of cash for those depleted Kremlin coffers? It's easy ? just dust off the missile silos. The U.S. Monday announced a new breakthrough with North Korea, after the two sides agreed at talks in Berlin that Pyongyang would suspend missile tests in exchange for Washington's moving to ease economic sanctions on the impoverished communist state. Thus far, North Korea has agreed only to refrain from firing another missile while talks last, but observers believe it?s the first step toward a comprehensive agreement to end the missile program in exchange for economic assistance...