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MOSCOW: Russian soldiers of the 245th motorized rifle regiment began pulling out of Chechnya and heading home to Moscow. But whether the troops will stay out of Chechnya is still very much up in the air. In the past, the Kremlin has announced "withdrawals" which have turned out to be minor troop redeployments and rotations. "There's still a long way to go," says TIME's Sally Donnelly. "About 45,000 Russian troops are still stationed in Chechnya right now. No dramatic peace initiatives will happen before the election, and a lot could still go wrong on the ground...
...administration on Thursday over what aides charged was a constant pattern of interference in Yeltsin's election campaign. Alexander Korzhakov, head of Yeltsin's personal security; Mikhail Barsukov, head of the Federal Security Service; and Oleg Soskovets, the first deputy prime minister, had formed a powerful clique within the Kremlin, but crossed the line when they arrested two of Yeltsin's campaign aides late Wednesday. Television stations picked up the story within hours, agitating the already nervous capitol. One of the aides, after his release Thursday morning, said that during hours of interrogation, he was pumped for compromising information about...
...survive the first round of voting that 11 candidates will face next Sunday. He was ailing, unsteady on his feet, glassy-eyed. His leadership and his policies looked just as moribund. His approval ratings moldered in the single digits, and his ambition to run for another term in the Kremlin seemed pointless...
...group of elite officers at the Russian Ministry of Defense had cooked up a plan out of profound frustration. According to one colonel, they first intended to intercept President Boris Yeltsin's motorcade as it traveled to the Kremlin along Znamenka Street, where their headquarters is located. Then, with Yeltsin trapped, they would demand their salaries, which had not been paid for several months, and tell him "to his face what we think about how he has destroyed the armed forces," as the colonel...
...presidential race, few Russians believe they will live anytime soon in a society where the rule of law prevails and where the leaders take the demands of the electorate as seriously as their own self-interest. Such crippling pessimism is understandable, given centuries of oppressive rule by the Kremlin...