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Chastened reformers have been swift to heed the electoral message that when Yeltsin does not offer his coattails, they risk a ride into oblivion. While Yeltsin remained silent after the electoral returns, his confidant Mikhail Poltoranin warned, "Fascism is creeping in the door opened by our divisions and our ambitions." Yegor Gaidar, who heads Russia's Choice, the largest reformist party, and is architect of Yeltsin's economic reforms, was more blunt, calling upon the three reformist parties to "lay aside all ambitions and disagreements" to forge a "united front...
...accord, of sorts, last week with the Civic Union, the opposition group representing the interests of powerful Russian industrialists. Yeltsin agreed to restore some state controls over the economy during the transition to a free market. In another move aimed at defusing political tensions, Deputy Prime Minister Mikhail Poltoranin, an archenemy of the hard-liners, stepped down. He wanted, he said, "to protect the President from mounting attacks from an opposition bent on revenge...
Though traditionally loath to involve themselves in politics, military personnel are angrily demanding more respect. "The army is fed up with uncertainty, with humiliation. It wants its dignity restored," says Russian Information Minister Mikhail Poltoranin...
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