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...elections. Despite losing his bid for Yeltsin's chair, he seized upon the 6 million votes he received as license to launch a never ending campaign for the presidency. His platform lurches from the draconian to the absurd, from calls for summary executions to a proposal to turn the Kremlin into a round-the-clock entertainment center, with museums, restaurants and bars. One theme, however, has remained firm ever since he first sounded it in 1991: "I say it quite plainly -- when I come to power, there will be a dictatorship." More recently he has added, "You cannot rule...
While attention focused on elections to the new bicameral parliament, the Kremlin was worried about how Russia's 108 million voters would cast their ballots on the constitution. Since Yeltsin suspended the rebellious parliament and crushed a hard-line armed revolt last October, he has been ruling alone by presidential decree. To bring Russia back onto a constitutional track, he took a bold gamble in asking voters simultaneously to select new lawmakers and approve a new law of the land...
...most controversial articles give the President substantial powers to control parliament -- a major change from Soviet-era constitutions that brings Russia closer to the French model of a presidential republic. Because the Kremlin wants to rule out any possibility that the bloody showdown in October could be repeated, the new law grants Yeltsin the right to disband the parliament if it fails to accept his nominee for Prime Minister for the third time or attempts to force a vote of confidence twice in three months. The post of Vice President has been abolished, owing to Yeltsin's bitter experience with...
After the October showdown, the Kremlin tinkered with the draft to tighten central control over Russia's 89 regions and autonomous republics. Federal laws are given precedence over local legislative acts, and natural resources are subject to joint federal and local control. Anticipating trouble in the hinterlands, which have exploited tensions in Moscow to go their own way, last week Kremlin advisers bluntly told local leaders in the ethnic republics of Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Tuva and Kalmykia to refrain from "irresponsible remarks," hinting that the Kremlin might take measures to bring them into line...
...will follow, or how the 450 members of its lower house, the Duma, and the 176 delegates of its upper chamber will coordinate with the executive. No one even knows where the Duma will meet, although one proposed site, on the outskirts of Moscow 10 miles from the Kremlin, suggests the importance the new parliament will command in Yeltsin's estimation...