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Russian officials are threatening to resume fighting in Chechnya unless rebels surrender Shamil Basayev, the commander of the hostage-takers. Col-Gen. Anatoly Kulikov, commander of the Russian forces in Chechnya, gave the Chechens until this evening to comply, but so far they have refused. The fallout from the hostage-taking continues in Moscow, wherePresident Boris Yeltsin's governmentreceived a no-confidence vote from Parliament. While Russia's constitution allows Yeltsin to ignore the largely symbolic vote, he cannot dismiss the fact that his support in the Duma is evaporating rapidly: members are now circulating a petition to impeach...
Despite taking two important Chechen cities, Argun and Shali, last week, the Russian army faces a long slog in Chechnya. "It won't end so quickly," said the Russian commander, Colonel General Anatoli S. Kulikov. "We calculate that by the summer period, we can establish control of two-thirds of the territory...
...days after they arranged a shaky ceasefire, Russian and Chechen officials agreed to a two-day truce to try for a negotiated settlement to the two-month-old civil war. The commander of Moscow's troops in Chechnya, Col. Gen. Anatoly Kulikov, claimed the agreement had averted an all-out massacre. But Chechen President Dzhokhar Dudayev said the pending talks between envoys were too low-level to accomplish anything serious. "You never can stop a war by means of negotiations between commanders," he told reporters. A taste of what's to come: this afternoon, 50 Chechen presidential guards arrived...
Some of the conservative officers in Moscow are trying to pretend the Iraqi collapse never happened. Marshal Viktor Kulikov told a Soviet news agency that Iraqi soldiers had failed, not Soviet equipment. Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, an adviser to President Mikhail Gorbachev, said any claim that the gulf war proved the superiority of American arms was "sheer propaganda...
There were unconfirmed reports that the 76-year-old Defense Minister was indeed seriously ill, perhaps suffering from a liver disease or felled by a stroke. Western analysts believe that Warsaw Pact Commander Viktor Kulikov, 63, is the most plausible contender to succeed him. One civilian thought to be in the running is Grigori Romanov, 61, the former Leningrad party chief who joined the Central Committee Secretariat last year...