Word: moscow
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...MOSCOW: Russia's politicians may reach an agreement on a prime minister, but they're unlikely to agree on an economic policy. Boris Yeltsin has convened a weekend horse-trading session in the hope of securing Viktor Chernomyrdin's election on Monday, after the Duma postponed Friday's vote. "The Communists still insist they'll reject Chernomyrdin, but the tide may be turning as backroom deals have swung some key constituencies," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier...
...like having 1,000 people in a room with no air, and then throwing in a bottle of oxygen with enough for three or four people and saying work it out among yourselves," says Meier. The Darwinian culling of the banking sector has limited appeal to anyone except Moscow's oligarchs, who hope to salvage some of their wealth. Foreign bankers have little enthusiasm for the plan -- besides doubts over its efficacy, it's a nonstarter without another infusion of Western billions...
...timing of President Clinton's Moscow summit was lousy, the reverse is true of his trip to Northern Ireland. Since the shaky summer of Drumcree and the shock and sorrow of the Omagh bombing, the province appears to be very much back on the track to peace. All but one of the renegade guerrilla groups have declared a cease-fire; Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has begun to renounce violence with all the passion of a would-be Nobel laureate; and just before Clinton touched down Thursday, news came through that Unionist leader and first minister David Trimble had agreed...
Call it red-button relations. After all that speechmaking on the need for economic reform -- most of it preached to the economists who don't need it, rather than the politicians who do -- the only real action taken by President Clinton during his two-day summit in Moscow was this: He and Yeltsin agreed to slash their nuclear stockpiles by 50 tons of plutonium each, and to share sensitive information on each other's missile launches. Arms control and early warning systems may not seem so relevant at a time like this, and 50 tons represents barely a quarter...
...talking about a country with 22,000 nuclear weapons, you want to know they're in safe hands." Indeed, on a day when Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov muttered darkly that "Yeltsin is pushing the nation to a civil war" and Olympic-level athletes threatened to pull out of a Moscow track meet for fear of being injured in a coup, it's not hard...