Word: moscow
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...week, Prime Minister Yevgeni Primakov quickly stepped in--in every sense of the word. Yeltsin's advancemen sketched out Primakov's arrival and departure; Yeltsin's chief of protocol arranged the state visits; and Yeltsin's personal interpreter did the German-to-Russian translating. The only things missing, a Moscow newspaper wagged, were Mrs. Yeltsin and a battery of doctors. Not to mention the gaffes, stumbles and truncated schedules. The Russian establishment reacted with relief. "It's so good to see the country represented by something other than a walking corpse," sighed a Foreign Ministry official...
...explosives at the gates of the Kremlin late Wednesday. Officials say Ivan Orlov, who survived the attack, is insane. But the incident may simply be the latest symptom of Russia's social unraveling. "He hadn't been paid for months, although that's nothing unusual here," says TIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich. "People are getting desperate, starting to point guns at their bosses to demand their salaries. Orlov's attack won't be the last such case...
...product. But the real buyers are the government and health-insurance middlemen. American health care comprises an elaborate structure. Backstage, courageous nurses and ethical physicians keep things from falling apart. Reforming America's most powerful cartel requires enormous political courage. Wallowing with Kenneth Starr is safer. THOMAS A. MCGOFF Moscow...
...Moscow's media corps scrambled for its medical dictionaries Tuesday, in search of the meaning of "asthenic." That was the term chosen by the Kremlin to describe Boris Yeltsin's condition, in explaining why he's canceled all travel plans and checked in to a sanatorium for two weeks. He's already taken 47 vacation days this year...
...Kremlin is reaching hard for medical terms that nobody quite understands to tell us that Yeltsin is tired and perhaps depressed," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "But as long as he's still breathing, much of the political establishment wants to keep him in office because they're not yet ready to fight elections." And, of course, the ailing president has his own reasons for hanging on: "Yeltsin needs legal immunity for himself and his family and he wants a nice retirement package," says Meier. So expect 18 more months of an increasingly withdrawn president becoming marginal...