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...places have borne witness to so much modern history as the fifth-floor corner conference room at No. 4 Staraya Ploshchad, a few blocks from the Kremlin. Seated in brown leather swivel chairs around a wooden table, the ruling Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union made its decisions to invade Afghanistan, reduce nuclear weapons, settle questions of Kremlin succession. It was in this room that Mikhail Gorbachev first discussed reform policies that would change the world and bring the U.S.S.R. to an end. Today the headquarters of the once powerful party belongs to Russia's new democratic...
Yeltsin's relationship with Gorbachev remains tense. Irritated by the acclaim Gorbachev received during his recent U.S. visit, the Kremlin accused the former Soviet President of "whipping up political tensions" by openly criticizing government policies and vaguely hinted that "legal steps" might have to be taken. These flare-ups of the old public feud are more reflective of the Yeltsin team's insecurity about its image abroad than of realities at home. Gorbachev has become increasingly irrelevant to Moscow politics. Yeltsin clearly has the upper hand and could make life difficult for his former rival at the constitutional-court hearings...
...have already erupted between the young reformers and the old Yeltsin loyalists, like presidential chief of staff Yuri Petrov. At first the Old Guard was dismissive of the new crowd. When the decree appointing Golovkov to the rival post of government chief of staff was sent over to the Kremlin for the President to sign, it somehow got "lost" on the way. Now presidential staffers must be wondering what will happen to them if Gaidar and the government team should actually succeed. Petrov submitted his resignation, complaining about "unfounded accusations" that he and other members of the party...
...from Yalta that Mikhail Gorbachev spent three days under house arrest last August during the coup attempt, the resort is best remembered as the site where Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin convened to redraw the map of Europe. That was 47 years ago, when the Crimea fell unquestionably within the Kremlin's empire and only dreamers wasted time imagining a world without the Soviet Union...
Under pressure, Crimean leaders backed down and rescinded the resolution, & but not before Russian Vice President Alexander Rutskoi, the Kremlin's standard-bearer for increasingly influential Russian nationalists, blasted Ukrainian politicians for portraying Russia as "an insidious empire" and trying to break up the Commonwealth. "The referendum in Crimea must be held, and no one can ban it with force or with threats," Rutskoi insisted in a newspaper article. Two days later, in a closed-door session, the Russian parliament upped the ante by voting to annul the 1954 transfer of the Crimea to Ukraine as "an illegal...