Word: parliament
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...Russia is going through, and it would spell political backlash -- if not worse -- in any language. When Bill Clinton was in Moscow two weeks ago, Boris Yeltsin assured him that free-market reforms would continue in spite of the December elections that boosted extreme nationalists and old communists into parliament as the dominant opposition. But Air Force One was hardly airborne before the Russian government started stepping back from its pledges...
...Duma, parliament's lower house, celebrated the pain-relieving approach by voting its members a pay increase, free travel on planes and trains, free apartments in Moscow, free telephones and 24-hour limousine service. "Are you crazy?" demanded populist politician Nikolai Travkin, pointing to the government deficit already in the trillions of rubles. The other parliamentarians ignored...
...Clinton and his senior aides rode from their hotel to the Kremlin for their first round of talks, they wondered whether they would find Yeltsin firmly on course for more economic reforms or possibly planning to trim under pressure from the extreme nationalists and communists in the newly elected parliament. In political shorthand, the apprehension had a name: Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the most visible and loudest of Moscow's band of neofascists. But Clinton was more broadly concerned last week with resentment among the Russian people and with whether Yeltsin would have to respond by firing some of the best-known...
While preparing for the summit and the opening session of the new parliament, Boris Yeltsin responded to written questions from Moscow bureau chief, John Kohan. It is Yeltsin's first exclusive interview with an American publication since the collapse of the Soviet Union...
...What are the prospects for reform in Russia, given the opposition in the parliament...