Word: moscow
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...MOSCOW: Anybody here? President Clinton is expected at the Kremlin Monday, but he may find it difficult to determine just who is in charge of Russia. As the economy lurches into free fall and drags world markets downward, rumors abound that a lame-duck President Boris Yeltsin is about to step down, while his prime minister-designate Viktor Chernomyrdin still awaits confirmation...
...currencies. The reinstated prime minister hopes to straddle the mutually exclusive demands of the Communists, whom he aims to bring into government, and the IMF, which he plans to hit up for more billions. "Chernomyrdin has given no sign of having a coherent policy to stop the meltdown in Moscow," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "A lot of the country has been living without money for years, because of the ham-fisted policies of successive Yeltsin administrations -- most of them headed by Chernomyrdin...
...kill the President during a visit to the Philippines was abandoned because of tight security, while a second assassination plot was to have been attempted during Clinton's canceled Pakistan visit. If the reports are true, Washington would do well to beef up security for next week's Moscow trip -- after all, Bin Laden is also alleged to have trained a number of Chechen terrorists...
...MOSCOW: Boris Yeltsin's latest cabinet reshuffle has left his supporters worried about his sanity while his country braces for yet another 180-degree turn in economic policy. Five months ago Yeltsin fired Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin for fomenting a financial crisis; on Sunday he reappointed Chernomyrdin to resolve that crisis. "To put it generously, this is rather illogical on Yeltsin's part," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "It has raised serious doubts over the president's logical processes, even among his staunch backers...
...with Clinton due in Moscow at the start of September, the U.S. makes a perfect target for that redirected wrath. "With all the currency woes, it's not a bad time to accuse the West of trying to weaken Russia from without," says Quinn-Judge. "It's his way of softening up Clinton before the summit...