Word: moscow
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...hearts. Clinton "supposed" something useful might come of former Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin's efforts, but once the terms of Milosevic's summit-eve offer to contemplate some international peacekeeping force emerged, they were no more acceptable than his previous overtures. The allies would still love to have Moscow mediate a settlement as a way to bring it back into partnership with the West...
Epstein plans to work with organizations including the Youth Antifascist League of Russia and a student television network run out of the Journalism Department at Moscow State University...
...Moscow, sidelined and ignored as NATO went to war in the Balkans, is suddenly teeming with Western leaders seeking to negotiate their way out of the Kosovo stalemate. German defense minister Rudolf Scharping discussed Kosovo with top Russian officials Wednesday, following U.S. envoy Strobe Talbott's Tuesday talks with Russia's foreign minister Igor Ivanov and Kosovo envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin. Greek foreign minister Georgios Papandreou and U.N. secretary general Kofi Annan were due to arrive for talks later in the day, while Canadian foreign minister Lloyd Axworthy was due to join the diplomatic party on Thursday...
Despite the flurry of talks, peace remains elusive. "Moscow wants to see more concessions from the NATO side in order to be able to broker an agreement," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "But NATO won't offer anything until the Russians can show some movement from Milosevic toward meeting NATO's demands, particularly on the nature of a peacekeeping force for Kosovo." Awkward as it may be, the diplomatic dance may be the only show in town. Even as NATO mounted new air raids and Washington ordered 33,000 reserves into the theater to support an escalated...
...minutes--putting Clinton in a testy mood for most of the day. Yeltsin later lashed out at the U.S. and talked vaguely of radical measures he had considered and rejected--presumably sending arms and volunteers to Serbia. "On the moral level, we are above America," Yeltsin said. Moscow's desperation for influence and anger at the U.S. are partly the result of humiliation, reflecting Russia's plunge from superpower to pauper in just 10 years. Says former President and friend of the West Mikhail Gorbachev: "We are sliding toward a new cold...