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There was other compelling evidence last week that Gorbachev is carrying out a high-level shuffle of the Soviet military. The current Warsaw Pact commander, Marshal Viktor Kulikov, 64, it was rumored, had been given a lesser post. Marshal Vladimir Tolubko, 70, who was in charge of the country's strategic rocket forces, has retired. So has Marshal Alexei Yepishev, 77, chief of the powerful main political directorate of the army and navy; his replacement is General Alexei Lizichev, 57, currently political commissar of Soviet forces in East Germany. Western diplomats believe these changes bear the marks of Gorbachev...
Then Yeltsin did the same to the Minister of Internal Affairs, General Anatoli Kulikov, the hard-line chief of 500,000 police and 257,000 well-equipped internal troops. The President paused then for a chat with Minister of Defense Igor Sergeyev and federal security chief Nikolai Kovalev. Just routine, said presidential spokesman Sergei Yastrzhembsky. Not entirely, says another Kremlin official. That chat was "a prudent precaution," simply common sense when you have just fired Kulikov, an unreconstructed hawk with enormous ambition and many troops within marching distance of the Kremlin...
According to a well-informed account, Chubais made sure his enemy Kulikov went out the door with him. The Internal Affairs Minister, who longed to roll back the privatization Chubais has engineered, had leaked information so damaging to some of Chubais' deputies that they had to resign. Chubais was determined to get him for that, and the oligarchs were perfectly happy to see Kulikov go. He was no respecter of private property. And he seemed eager to be a political kingmaker in 2000, using his ministry troops and snoops to back Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, another foe of the free...
Lebed failed to notice the approaching danger and even dug his own grave by starting quarrels with major political figures like Interior Minister Anatoli Kulikov and presidential chief of staff Anatoli Chubais. And although Yeltsin has had trouble with his health and with control of the Kremlin, firing Lebed was not risky, since most of the Kremlin's leading figures wanted him out anyway. Yeltsin planned the coming and going of Lebed from the very beginning, and Lebed naively gave him a helping hand. SANDER ANTEN Amsterdam Via E-mail...
...extra checkpoints Kulikov spoke of apparently existed only on paper, and no reinforcements seemed to move into Moscow. Washington speculates that by announcing the measures, the Interior Minister was simply trying to reinforce his assertion that Lebed was plotting a coup. Despite this, the Clinton Administration apparently felt a sneaking sympathy for the decision to fire Lebed. "The guy overstepped his bounds. He was a bad team player and got fired by his boss," said a senior White House aide. American officials concede that the Russian military's officer corps would not be happy about the dismissal, but Washington does...