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...even the most world-weary Muscovites find diversion in the antics of their politicians. They are particularly bemused by the squabble about where the new parliament is supposed to meet. With a Russian Orthodox bishop in attendance to offer his blessings and perhaps exorcise the ghosts of the past, Chernomyrdin hastily occupied a renovated office suite last week at the White House, the former parliament building damaged last October when armed forces loyal to Yeltsin put down a revolt of hard-line deputies. The move was intended to forestall any claims on the space by the new Federal Assembly, whose...
...Georgia's most beloved writers, Gamsakhurdia was imprisoned in 1977 for founding a human-rights organization in Georgia. His televised repentance bought his release, allowing him to run for President in 1991. Once in office, however, he muzzled the press, imprisoned rivals and stonewalled parliament. He was overthrown in 1992. Undeterred, Gamsakhurdia unleashed a civil war that was quieted only after Russian troops joined the fray on the side of President Eduard Shevardnadze, who, when he heard of his rival's death, pronounced that the man had been "a political corpse for a long time." Without confirmation of when...
That proved too much for Zhelev, who retorted that the Russian government should consider conducting mental-health tests before allowing future candidates to run for parliament. By late afternoon, Zhirinovsky was told he had 24 hours to leave the country. He complied -- but not before promising to someday "return as President," presumably of Russia. His intended holiday finale was to have been an 18-day stay in Berlin. But the Zhirinovsky grand tour ground to a premature halt when German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel turned down his request for a visa, informing him that he was no longer welcome...
Running short on both patience and options, he returned to Moscow, where vote tallies revealed that his Liberal Democrats will control nearly 15% of the seats in the lower house of the new parliament, enough to make them a constant thorn in the side of Yeltsin's democratic supporters. While the international rebuffs may be a sign that Zhirinovsky may find it difficult to use other countries as soapboxes for airing his incendiary views, the most his trip seems to have provoked at home is a hilarious set of lampoons by Moscow's most popular comedian, Gennadi Khazanov, who draws...
...mature," says German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel. "But after the latest events, we can only hope it stays that way." Strange as it may seem, Zhirinovsky's elevation to a Duma seat may be the best thing for Yeltsin: better to have "Vladimir the Terrible" spouting off in the parliament than rabble rousing in the streets. Then again, Zhirinovsky is now well poised to use his seat in parliament as a launching pad for his presidential ambitions...