Word: moscow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hinting so plainly that he was considering a run in 2000 that Yeltsin dismissed him. In fact, by week's end Chernomyrdin had confirmed his intention to run for President. Kommersant, a leading daily, concluded, "We can pronounce the once superpowerful Premier politically dead." But Boris Berezovsky, one of Moscow's most influential business tycoons, talked with Chernomyrdin last week and came out a booster. Only a week before, he had declared on television that Chernomyrdin was "unelectable" in 2000. Now Berezovsky says the former Prime Minister is "full of energy to fight for the presidency," a run Berezovsky says...
...MOSCOW: Don?t believe the hype: President Boris Yeltsin and his Communist opposition may appear to be headed for a showdown over Yeltsin?s new prime minister, but they?re just going through the motions, says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. ?Nobody wants a confrontation because it?s not in anybody?s interest. If they can?t agree, Yeltsin will dissolve parliament and hold new elections. The Communists may not like Yeltsin?s choice for prime minister, but they like the idea of facing the voters even less,? says Quinn-Judge. So, after a ritual showdown, Yeltsin will...
Every bar and club (and most businesses) in Moscow have mafia and security connections called a "krysha," or "roof." The high-level people, usually well established in the Russian Mafia world, are paid to look out for the establishment's interests. In a city where media mogul Vladimir Gusinsky runs his business out of Mayor Yuri Luzhkov's office, mafiosi sit in the Duma--Russia's national legislature--and the sale of pirated videos is a quasi-legitimate business, the line between legal and illegal procedure is hopelessly fuzzy...
...Steele, however, it's all part of the cost of running one of the most unique joints in Moscow. Sitting in his office, Steele switches through the video-security channels, revelling in his wild creation. He flips to a picture of the front door and watches the crowd trying to push their way in. He flips to the bar camera and sees a drunken woman teetering on the bar. "Watch her," he says with evident glee. "She's about to fall...
Marshall Lewy is the heal of FM's Moscow Bureau...