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That sentiment is more a feeble wish than a rational expectation. In Washington the State Department maintains, publicly at least, that Yeltsin is firmly in charge and overseeing the latest game of Kremlin musical chairs with some skill. In Moscow, however, his frequent disappearances reinforce the perception that the country has already entered the post-Yeltsin era, with the enfeebled President--like the Soviet-era leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Konstantin Chernenko--wielding power in name only. This in turn deepens the fear, often voiced in Western capitals and in Russia, that chaos in the Russian Federation is always lurking just...
Boris Yeltsin came back twice last week. He wrapped up his re-election triumph at the polls, then reappeared in his Kremlin office looking better than his supporters at home and abroad had feared he might. Amid rumors of more heart problems, he had canceled his public appearances a week before the second round of balloting. But there he was at his desk last Thursday, smiling and conferring with Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin on who will be in the next Cabinet. Yeltsin called in television crews to film a short victory statement, in which he told the Russian people...
MOSCOW: The second bomb in as many days exploded on a Moscow city bus Friday morning. At least 27 were injured, eight seriously, when TNT hidden in a cloth bag tore the front end from a bus about three miles north of the Kremlin. President Yeltsin and Mayor Yuri Luzhkov blamed the attack on terrorists, closed the main roads leading out of Moscow, and flooded the city with police. "Luzhkov thinks that Chechens or criminals opposed to the new anti-crime policy are responsible," says TIME's Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich, who doubts the separatist guerrillas are behind the attacks...
...vice-president (a post Yeltsin abolished in 1993) as well. Chernomyrdin is not pleased, and made it clear he was not ready to give up any of his own powers." The newly appointed Lebed should take care that he doesn't wear out his welcome in the Kremlin. Boris Yeltsin brought the former soldier into the government; he can also throw Lebed out.-->