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...with Clinton due in Moscow at the start of September, the U.S. makes a perfect target for that redirected wrath. "With all the currency woes, it's not a bad time to accuse the West of trying to weaken Russia from without," says Quinn-Judge. "It's his way of softening up Clinton before the summit...
MOSCOW: What's Boris Yeltsin so mad about? TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Paul Quinn-Judge says the Russian president's tirade over U.S. missile strikes is equal parts bluster, envy and a little dog-wagging of his own. "On one level, he feels personally slighted about being out of the loop on the attack," says Quinn-Judge. "But like Clinton, Yeltsin has a domestic scandal of his own to contend with: his devaluation of the ruble. With the parliament calling for his resignation, a little burst of nationalist fury does not go amiss...
...September 1 visit. Russia's leader returned to his month-long vacation Tuesday, while his country reeled under the shock of Monday's ruble devaluation. "Should the latest package fail to stem the crisis, Russia's political establishment will be totally discredited," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "They have too often claimed to have found a way out of their economic woes, only to be proved wrong each time." Indeed, Yeltsin had insisted last Friday that all was well with the economy...
...governments are anxious about the devaluation, while Russians are enraged. The Kremlin says the crisis is rooted in a lack of confidence in Russia's markets by foreign investors, "but confidence was lacking because there was no sign this government could do any better than its predecessors," says Quinn-Judge. And this week's fiscal spasms are unlikely to restore Western faith in Yeltsin...
...sensible among them called for keeping the protest peaceful, but each night, gangs of Protestant youths resorted to violence as hundreds of fire bombs were pitched at churches and the homes of Catholic families unfortunate enough to live in vulnerable areas. Last Sunday one of those bombs incinerated the Quinn children within minutes...