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President-elect Vladimir Putin may have convinced Russia's lawmakers that there's a new sheriff in town, but that isn't giving those accused of corruption much cause for alarm. Putin on Wednesday succeeded where President Boris Yeltsin had twice failed - by getting Russia's upper chamber of parliament to dismiss general prosecutor Yuri Skuratov, Moscow's equivalent of the attorney general. But getting rid of Skuratov, who had refused to back down on an investigation into corruption inside the Kremlin - and then was publicly humiliated by a video showing him in bed with prostitutes - may be a sign...
...Putin, who visited Britain last week and has scheduled a June summit with President Clinton, has taken other measures to postpone any potential cloud of scandal hanging over his image-building campaign in the West. He also recently pressured the Duma to put off historic hearings into the Bank of New York scandal scheduled for last week until June. "It was to have been the first ever investigative hearing by the Duma, and a number of U.S. congressmen were due to attend," says Meier. "Putin may also be trying to quiet down that one, at least until after his inauguration...
After reading your story on Vladimir Putin [April 3], I realized why our leaders are probably worried about Russia's new President. The intensity, self-discipline, focus and pragmatism possessed by Putin are alien and scary to the louts we get to vote for. I wish we had a guy like that. MARTIN SMITH Chillicothe, Ohio...
...general in the Kremlin as President of "democratic Russia" is not an "unhappy accident." Putin's election crowns a shift in Russia's mass consciousness from romantic, yet real, pro-democratic expectations toward demand for a "strong hand...
...former leaders of the anticommunist movement in Moscow warned the U.S. government of this scenario. Indirectly, Putin's election is the result of the shortsighted policy of the U.S. and the international financial institutions toward Russia. ALEXANDRE FEDOROVSKI Silverdale, Wash...