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...make no bones about what we're doing," says Nikolai Svanidze, a popular news anchor. "Zyuganov says the press must be in line with the society, which means government control if he gets in. We have no right to be objective now." As a tactical matter, Svanidze says, "frontally saying Zyuganov is bad would be counterproductive. So we coordinate with Yeltsin's staff and make sure to use good camera angles when showing the President. I'd like to show him drunk, but not now. Honesty will have to wait till later...
...suggesting that female employees of a local chocolate factory pair off with single military cadets. When he finally wound down, the lackluster applause demonstrated all too clearly that even in Yekaterinburg, Yeltsin had lost his appeal. "We've heard so many promises, but what's been done?" asked Nikolai, an 81-year-old veteran. "Factories aren't working, people aren't being paid, pensions aren't being received...
...Grozny, even as hostage-takers under withering Russian assault in Pervomayskaya, Dagestan, vowed to fight to the death. Chechens escalated the conflict as Russian President Boris Yeltsin shook up his cabinet, replacing Presidential Chief of Staff Sergei Filatov, one of the last remaining liberals in his administration, with hawk Nikolai Yegorov. The developments limn the increasingly desperate straits of both the Chechen separatists and Russian president Boris Yeltsin. For Yeltsin, says TIME's J.F.O. McAllister, "Chechnya has been a disaster since it began. With the recent victories of the Communists and nationalists in national elections, the people of political saliency...
Zarakhovich says the prevailing political winds favor more indiscriminate violence. Monday, Yeltsin appointed as his new chief of staff Nikolai Yegorov, an aide that he fired last year for mishandling another prominent hostage standoff with Chechen rebels. "This is a very ominous sign," says Zarakhovich. "He was one of the key people who engineered the war in Chechnya, and his policy was to kill all the Chechens." Beyond that, the newly-elected Communist Duma starts its first session Tuesday, and few in the plurality would treat the Chechens lightly. "Ever since the war stopped, this story has really been...
...subsequently reinstated by a ruling of the Russian Supreme Court, but the scandal underscored just how shaky the legal foundation was for Russia's new electoral system. It also showed how, in the absence of clear signals from the top, loyal servants of the President's, like commission chairman Nikolai Ryabov, could quickly move to assert their own personal authority by an overzealous interpretation of the rules...