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SELDOM DURING HIS ALMOST FIVE years in power had Boris Yeltsin appeared more in charge. As cameras rolled in a Kremlin conference room, the glowering Russian President pounded the table and delivered a furious dressing down to a row of hangdog officers. "What am I to make of you generals?" he barked. "Are you playing games? What have you been doing instead of erecting barriers, strengthening your forces and stopping the rebels?" The generals--Defense Minister Pavel Grachev; Interior Minister Anatoli Kulikov; Andrei Nikolayev, the commander of the Border Guards; and Security Chief Mikhail Barsukov--sat in chastened silence, heads...
Ever prepared with simple solutions to intractable problems, ultranationalist and Russian presidential candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky called on the Kremlin to "Take off the white gloves and rose-colored glasses and stop the war in the Caucasus." Vlad's solution: "Burn all rebel bases with napalm...
Last week Yeltsin returned to work at the Kremlin, strolling around its snowy courtyards in his first public appearance since a heart ailment felled him two months ago. In a staged event he chatted jovially with Russian tourists and journalists and told them he would not allow the Communists to end his reform program...
Russian President Boris Yeltsin ended what his presidential news service called a "sojourn in a sanatorium" and returned to the Kremlin after two months of treatment and rest for acute coronary ischemia (restricted blood flow to the heart). Prior to his public appearance in the Kremlin, Yeltsin quickly met with Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin to map out potential strategies to deal with the strong showing of the Communist Party in the Dec. 17 parliamentary elections...
...Yavlinsky, 43, leader of the Yabloko bloc, managed to win a few laughs from his earnest audience. During the election campaign, he quipped, the government has promised to do just about everything "except restore virginity." Turning to the topic of the President's health, Yavlinsky wanted to know if "Kremlin" orders would now have to be described as decisions by "the Central Clinical Hospital." It was just the sort of display of intelligence and humor that have made the boyish-looking economist the darling of Moscow's liberal intellectuals ever since he first gained prominence in 1990 as the author...