Word: moscow
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...MOSCOW: What?s a guy got to do to get his paycheck around here? Miners who haven?t received theirs for eight months believe blockading the country?s key transport routes might help, which they?ve been doing all week. But Boris Yeltsin today scolded the miners for being unreasonable: "The strikers are unwilling to hear cool-headed arguments or reasonable explanations and want to have their problems resolved at once and at any cost," said Yeltsin...
...Cool-headed arguments may be all Yeltsin has to offer. TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge reports that while the blockade is costing the cash-strapped country millions of dollars a day, the strong public sympathy for the strikers appears to preclude the use of force. ?We?re seeing nationwide gut-level frustration at years and years of promises,? says Quinn-Judge. ?But the government has no money.? The stock exchange is tumbling and no economic growth is expected this year. One possible boom sector: the nostalgia-for-communism industry...
...their day, the Soviets never worked seriously at developing Caspian wells, largely because they did not want to create competition for their already flowing Siberian oil. Moscow still feels the same but hasn't figured out how to head off the flow of Caspian oil or to grab a large chunk of the profit. Russia does insert an environmental argument: the oil industry could threaten the Caspian sturgeon and its oily treasure, caviar. For its part, Iran says it will cooperate in Caspian development only if it gets, say, a 20% share of the sea's resources. Both Russia...
...MOSCOW: Boris Yeltsin has been warned -- watch out for Boris Berezovsky. As Yeltsin?s prot?g? Sergei Kiriyenko sets about building a new government, the tycoon Berezovsky yesterday dealt Yeltsin a stunning political blow by being appointed secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States. ?From a standing start, Berezovsky in 10 days managed to persuade 11 presidents of former Soviet Republics to present Yeltsin with an unpalatable fait accompli,? says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. ?Berezovsky ran rings around Yeltsin...
...month ago it appeared as if Boris Yeltsin had chosen a graduate student to lead Russia's government. But after finally prevailing in a bruising confirmation battle, Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko looks "articulate, very bright and quite authoritative," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "His standing has definitely improved as he remained unfazed throughout the verbal hammering he's faced." Yeltsin's baby-faced protégé won easily in today's Duma vote after a secret ballot allowed a number of Communists and other opposition members to quietly defect in order to avoid the dissolution...