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Allen sees an increase in the conservatism of the former Kremlin on the Charles. "Upsettingly, I stood up in Adams House to make an announcement about the Lift the Ban rally and had people hissing," she says...
...BORIS YELTSIN'S SUPPORTERS HAD DOUBTS ABOUT how to vote in Sunday's four- question referendum, the Kremlin provided the right answers in the right order, using actors and nursery-school kids in catchy TV commercials. More substantively, the embattled Russian President was helped by a Constitutional Court decision allowing him to claim victory if he gets only a simple majority in the national vote of confidence. Not taking chances, Yeltsin's team launched a final, Western-style media blitz, with pop stars rocking for reform in a Kremlin concert and a televised look at his modest apartment...
...dozen communist leaders imprisoned Mikhail Gorbachev and seized control of the Soviet Union? After the scheme fell apart, one conspirator drank himself into a stupor, another shot himself dead, and a third made a break for the airport -- where he was arrested with the key to his new Kremlin office still in his pocket...
Asked who ultimately would win the struggle, Yeltsin replied, "There will be no winners." It seemed likely that his parliamentary foes would continue to sit belligerently in the Russian White House thinking up new ways to thwart the President, while Yeltsin remained in the Kremlin, issuing orders that officials who really make or break reform often ignore. As long as these rivals remain at odds, the government and its reforms will be stalemated...
Russians have always had a soft spot for Yeltsin, who faced down the tanks of the old regime in August 1991. Their enthusiasm began to fade only when he successfully elbowed his way into Mikhail Gorbachev's Kremlin office later that year. This week the besieged President is a populist hero again. The Moscow rumor mill churned out one pro-Yeltsin story after another -- and no one much cared if they were highly exaggerated or totally wrong. How turncoat Vice President Alexander Rutskoi pinched a copy of Yeltsin's unfinished decree on "special rule" and gave it to the opposition...