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Inside the building, a rump Congress of the People's Deputies began a hastily convened session by impeaching Yeltsin, but demoralized lawmakers were soon squabbling among themselves about whether to get rid of parliamentary chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov too. Yeltsin's government began to show signs of impatience with the siege, blocking access to the motor pool, keeping out fresh food supplies and, finally, turning off the electricity. As the crowds outside dwindled to several hundred diehards, groups of Deputies gathered by candlelight to plot their next move. But the standoff seemed all but over by week...
Vice President Alexander Rutskoi, once Yeltsin's ally, dismissed the referendum as a "sociological poll," and parliament chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov said it had "brought no losers or winners" -- just a weakening of the state. Yeltsin, however, took his victory as a mandate to begin strengthening his political clout. He summoned regional leaders to Moscow to present a new draft constitution that would turn Russia into a presidential republic with a two-chamber parliament to replace the present Congress of People's Deputies...
Once a sturdy ally of Boris Yeltsin's, Ruslan Khasbulatov has turned into one of his most implacable foes. Last week the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet talked candidly with TIME about the failures of reform, the growing anti- American sentiment in his country and why Yeltsin should quit...
Parliament and its aggressive leader, Ruslan Khasbulatov, will be mounting an attack of their own. When Yeltsin does not come up with the required 53 million votes, they may demand his resignation or try again to vote him out of office, as they almost did last month. The Constitutional Court's Zorkin could rule that the President should resign in favor of the Vice President, Alexander Rutskoi, another anti-Yeltsinite...
Parliamentary chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov and his army of Yeltsin-baiting Deputies may not realize it yet, but they have done the President a favor by their vote on impeachment. Before the crisis, his popularity was slipping. The moment the Congress attacks began, his approval rating began to climb. "Going after Yeltsin was like waving a red flag at a bull," says a middle-aged chauffeur at the Perovsky garage. "Whatever we may have thought about the President before, he now has our 100% support. It's in the Russian character to stick up for the underdog...