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...still came as a shock that the machine had deteriorated so badly -- and a greater shock that so much of it was riven by dissension and insubordination from teenage draftees who deserted, sometimes jumping off troop trains rather than going into battle, to senior generals who openly denounced the Kremlin's orders and local commanders who ignored them. Should the outside world be less worried about Russia's military prowess because the army seemed for the moment incapable of acting as an instrument of aggression? Or more worried that generals who still control nuclear weaponry scorn the commands of their...
...late to rally international opinion to Russian President Boris Yeltsin's defense: TIME State Department correspondent J.F.O. McAllister says Clinton Administration officials have actually been grumbling to Yeltsin about the sloppy military effort "for some time," to little effect because of an uncertain chain-of-command within the Kremlin...
...Kremlin nervousness over the drawn-out Chechnya war is chipping away at newly-won press freedoms in Russia, TIME chief European correspondent James O. Jackson reports. In addition to numerous cases of barring journalists from the battle zone, interfering with interviews and confiscating video equipment, Soviet-style military "censors" have also called up Russian journalists at home to "check their facts," he says. One Russian TV anchorman, Sergei Doryenko, says the anti-press forces "just want us to know that in a month or a year they might be back in power again. And the choice is ours...
While the Kremlin gave no immediate response, Deputies in the Duma, or lower house of parliament, blasted the initial government decision to send troops to Chechnya. "The country is in crisis," said one, reformer Boris Fyodorov, joining a unanimous call for a special commission to probe the war. Still, the Deputies rejected a limit on President BorisYeltsin's power to run the military offensive, and -- in a slap at widely criticized Defense Minister Pavel Grachev -- ordered the army's general staff to report directly to Yeltsin...
Finally, last week Yeltsin reappeared to serve as chairman of a meeting of the Russian Security Council, the top-level Kremlin committee of defense and intelligence officials, and to deliver a nationally televised speech on Chechnya. He looked fit -- so sleek, in fact, that some viewers suspected he had had his whole face retouched, not just his nose...