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...come to embody Russia's stumbling progress toward reform. If he is turned into a figurehead, the U.S. and its allies would find it extremely difficult to muster domestic support for lavishing money on a government dominated by neocommunists. If hard-boiled nationalists replace Yeltsin, an anti-Western Kremlin could reverse agreements on cutting nuclear arsenals, sell weapons to dangerous clients like Saddam Hussein, immobilize the U.N. with vetoes, slow down or reverse troop withdrawals from eastern Germany and the Baltics, and invade former Soviet republics in the name of rescuing Russian minorities...
...that is defined as keeping Yeltsin in power, not much. Yeltsin watchers in some NATO capitals believe that he lacks a strategy for defeating his opponents, so continuing to back him may be foolhardy. In any event, Russians, not foreigners, will determine the outcome of the struggles in the Kremlin. "Short of an official declaration that Ruslan Khasbulatov ((Yeltsin's nemesis)) has been a CIA spy for years, our ability to influence events is very small," says Paul Goble, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment in Washington. Others, like former CIA Director Robert Gates, say overt Western interference...
BORIS YELTSIN AND RUSLAN KHASBULAtov stared each other down in the Kremlin last week, and Yeltsin blinked. More to the point, he abruptly rose from his chair and walked off the stage. Russia's President and the chairman of its parliament, the Supreme Soviet, have been in direct confrontation for months over the course and pace of economic reforms -- and more fundamentally, over who should rule Russia. Yeltsin, who stands higher in public esteem than the legislature, has managed to hold his own through compromises and concessions, including the sacrifice of some of his key planners. But after four days...
Assembled in the ornately pilastered hall of the Great Kremlin Palace, the Deputies unhesitatingly voted by large majorities to cancel all previous power-sharing compromises with Yeltsin, ban the April referendum, strip away the President's power to issue decrees and put the Cabinet under parliamentary control. In effect, the executive branch was neutralized and parliament took over as arbiter of personnel and policy. On Friday, when the President's proposed amendments were rejected overwhelmingly, a grim-faced Yeltsin strode out of the hall...
...Grachev, Yeltsin used an interview on the eve of the biggest Soviet-era military holiday to rebuke hard-liners, including dissident officers, for trying "to play the army card" in a bid to derail Russian democracy. The next day 20,000 procommunist and ultranationalist demonstrators rallied next to the Kremlin to demand Yeltsin's resignation. A penchant for disappearing during major power struggles again raised public doubts about Yeltsin's health and political acumen. But the beleaguered President could take comfort in the week's only bright spot: an announcement that he and U.S. President Bill Clinton will hold their...