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RUSSIA: Who's Minding the Kremlin...
...unreformed communists and neofascists in Russia, President Boris + Yeltsin is a "drunken swine" who should be tested for dipsomania. That sneering dismissal is too crude for the more mainstream politicians. They argue instead that he is isolated in the Kremlin, is badly misinformed and is falling under the sway of a "war party" of military and security officials. Other critics go further, speculating that Yeltsin is scheming to declare a state of emergency, cancel the 1996 presidential elections and rule by decree...
What no one knows is what is really happening in the Kremlin, and Russians and foreigners alike find themselves rehoning the deductive tools of what used to be called Kremlinology. The way the Chechnya crisis is being mishandled suggests Yeltsin's presidency and Russia's fragile political liberalization may be in danger. Is Yeltsin going to go down in history as the first President of a democratic Russia or as one more overseer of an authoritarian state...
True to form, Yeltsin stepped offstage three weeks ago -- into the Kremlin hospital for repair of a deviated septum -- at the same time that he ordered the Russian armed forces to seize control in Chechnya and disarm the supporters of its defiant president, Jokhar Dudayev. The disappearance of Yeltsin and his failure to explain the decision to use force began a new round of speculation about his health and his competence to handle his job. Though U.S. Vice President Al Gore visited him and reported that he was fine, the rumors continued...
With Russian bombs pummeling his secession-bound republic, Chechnya's leader told the Kremlin today that he's ready to talk peace. President Dzhokhar Dudayev sent a telegram to Russian President Boris Yeltsin from a bomb shelter underneath the presidential palace in Grozny, stating he wants to start negotiations. But there was no indication from Russian or Chechen officials that the Chechen demand that all Russian troops leave before talks open would be embraced. Overhead, air strikes continued to pound the devastated city and Moscow did not publicly respond to his overture. Earlier today, the Russian defense minister said that...