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...Moscow earlier this month, there was little fanfare to mark his arrival. But when Vice President Joe Biden visited the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, two days ago, the road from the airport was crowded with people waving U.S. and Georgian flags. The welcome was so warm that Russian daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta wondered if the Georgian government might rename a square after Biden - just as it had named a road "President George W. Bush" after the former President's visit to the country...
While most Moscow papers and commentators praised the Kremlin's openness, the highbrow daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta noted that "had the news been known before the presidential elections, the results would have been substantially different." This may be precisely what Yeltsin and his entourage had in mind. At the price of frequent political embarrassment and perhaps some cost to Yeltsin's chances of recovery, they suppressed news of his ill health long enough for the country to enter what is by Russian standards something akin to political normality. Six months ago, after all, the favorites to succeed Yeltsin were people like...
...enthusiastic crowds in the hinterlands, but he faces a much tougher audience in Moscow. Few urban sophisticates have time anymore for the kitchen conversations about the Russian soul that were a staple of intellectual life when Solzhenitsyn first lived in the country. A savage commentary in the daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta proposed what to do with this troubling revivalist preacher: "Give him mothballs! And more mothballs! And put him to rest...
...communist idea in our country is quickly becoming part of the past," says Vitali Tretyakov, editor of the reform newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta. "It offers nothing that will improve people's lives...
...leaders' lack of belief in the future of a party they, probably better than anybody else, knew was an empty fraud. In the months preceding the coup and collapse there were signs that top party bosses, sensing the end was near, had begun looting the treasury. The newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta reported a series of shady real estate deals involving top party officials and attempts to convert soft ruble accounts into hard currency. Just before the party lost control of the Moscow City Council, for example, the Communist chairman, Valeri Saikin, transferred 33 city buildings to the party free of charge...