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...fear, often voiced in Western capitals and in Russia, that chaos in the Russian Federation is always lurking just below the surface of daily life. Even the top echelons of Russia's government are concerned. According to a source in the Defense Ministry, armed forces Chief of Staff General Mikhail Kolesnikov recently ordered plans to be drawn up to use troops to suppress any explosions of civil unrest...
...Americans were "vital," says Mikhail Margolev, who coordinated the Yeltsin account at Video International. Margolev had worked for five years in two American advertising agencies but freely acknowledges that his methods are still influenced by his earlier tenure as a propaganda specialist for the Soviet Communist Party and as an undercover KGB agent masquerading as a journalist for TASS, the Russian news agency. "The Americans helped teach us Western political-advertising techniques," says Margolev, "and most important, they caused our work to be accepted because they were the only ones really close to Tatiana. She was the key. The others...
...told the Ministry not to send Grachev's directives to the troops. Then I visited the headquarters of the Moscow military districts, where I met very decent people." According to defense analyst Vitali Shlykov, "Official cars kept rushing between the Ministry and the dachas of [Grachev loyalists]." Korzhakov and Mikhail Barsukov, head of the Federal Security Service, the domestic successor to the KGB, also got busy on the phone and sent aides to calm down military units around the capital. The crisis eased, and the generals later denied any attempt to pressure the President, saying they had gone to Grachev...
MOSCOW: President Boris Yeltsin fired three of the most powerful men in his administration on Thursday over what aides charged was a constant pattern of interference in Yeltsin's election campaign. Alexander Korzhakov, head of Yeltsin's personal security; Mikhail Barsukov, head of the Federal Security Service; and Oleg Soskovets, the first deputy prime minister, had formed a powerful clique within the Kremlin, but crossed the line when they arrested two of Yeltsin's campaign aides late Wednesday. Television stations picked up the story within hours, agitating the already nervous capitol. One of the aides, after his release Thursday morning...
...conducted the first exclusive interviews with former Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev and the Dalai Lama of Tibet, among others...