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Recalling a summit meeting with Boris Yeltsin, Major said he asked the Russian president to describe the state of Russia in one word...
While Chechen Islamic separatists ? who are behind the fighting in Dagestan ? have certainly resorted to terror attacks inside Russia on many occasions in the past, many Russian politicians fear that President Boris Yeltsin may use them as a pretext to claim emergency powers and hang on to power. "Faced with a corruption scandal that won?t simply go away, that scenario may be tempting for Yeltsin," says Quinn-Judge. "But there?s no guarantee that he could actually pull it off and survive. There are even real questions over whether he could muster the support of the necessary security forces...
...usual suspects? For a terrorist bombing in Moscow, there may be too many to round up. Russian authorities confirmed Thursday that an overnight explosion that killed 23 people and injured more than 150 was caused by a 450-pound bomb, opening another round of speculation as to the identity of the perpetrators. Although a caller to the Interfax news agency claimed the attack was a "response to the bombing of villages in Chechnya and Dagestan," that?s unlikely to close the betting on the identity of the perpetrators...
Coming hard on the heels of last weekend?s car-bomb attack that killed scores of people in an apartment block used by Russian military personnel in Dagestan ? and the renewed offensive by Islamic separatists there ? the temptation to link the latest Moscow blast to the turbulence in the Caucasus is strong. But the blast also follows last week?s attack on a games arcade in a shopping mall near the Kremlin, which sparked speculation that a gangland turf battle was involved, or, conversely, that the attack was part of a pattern of provocation by unnamed forces in the corridors...
IGOR SERGEYEV Russian Defense Minister routs Dagestan rebs. Keep your AK-47 warm. More revolts coming...