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After the presidential elections, Lebed lobbied publicly, and successfully, for General Rodionov to be appointed Defense Minister. But sources close to the Kremlin tell TIME that when Lebed recently tried to dictate to Rodionov a list of high-level personnel changes in the ministry, "Rodionov told him what to do with his list." Lebed's opponents in the political establishment are hoping that time will erode his lead. If the Chechnya peace agreement unravels, or Yeltsin recovers, Lebed's premature election campaign will look both indelicate and unwise. But in either case, Lebed might well walk out of the government...
...have the daunting honor of operating on President Boris Yeltsin, was nowhere to be found last week. His answering machine invited callers to leave a message; his colleagues said he was resting. And by late last week, despite its new commitment to openness about Yeltsin's health, the Kremlin had not said when the operation would be performed or where and by whom...
...Saturday, the Kremlin announced that Yeltsin had entered Moscow's Central Clinic Hospital for routine preoperative tests. This does not seem to indicate that the operation is imminent. In fact, there are signs it may not happen until October, rather than late September, as originally announced. The main reason seems to be the fear, voiced in the medical world and circles close to the Kremlin, that Yeltsin's health problems may be more serious. "A heart bypass is pretty conventional surgery," says an experienced Moscow surgeon. But, he adds, "the President seems to show symptoms of general atherosclerosis." This makes...
That may explain why the Kremlin is saying foreign specialists will be consulted. One of them, Russian officials say, will be Houston's renowned Dr. Michael DeBakey, 88, who helped train Akchurin. Two German cardiologists will also assist. Many more specialists will be in Moscow later this month for an international conference on cardiovascular problems...
While most Moscow papers and commentators praised the Kremlin's openness, the highbrow daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta noted that "had the news been known before the presidential elections, the results would have been substantially different." This may be precisely what Yeltsin and his entourage had in mind. At the price of frequent political embarrassment and perhaps some cost to Yeltsin's chances of recovery, they suppressed news of his ill health long enough for the country to enter what is by Russian standards something akin to political normality. Six months ago, after all, the favorites to succeed Yeltsin were people like...