Word: russias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...geopolitical bad guys is seldom as satisfying. As the Kosovo war grinds down toward an outcome untenable at the multiplex, NATO faces some uncomfortable choices over the eventual fate of Slobodan Milosevic. According to French reports Thursday, Milosevic has signaled that he's prepared to accept the NATO-Russia peace deal, but only if he's guaranteed immunity from prosecution as a war criminal. "Milosevic imposed the same condition on the Bosnia peace agreement," says TIME Central Europe reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "He has a lot of blood on his hands and he knows that Western intelligence has more than enough...
...from the democratic visionary he painted himself as -- and which the West needed him to be, in order to believe the good guys had won out in the Soviet Union's collapse -- Yeltsin's only agenda is to be running things. "If Buddhism had been fashionable in Russia when the Soviet Union collapsed, Yeltsin would have become Moscow's Dalai Lama," says Zarakhovich. "Democracy was popular, so the former Communist Party leader became a democrat. He's the consummate political animal, at his best when he's fighting -- he's already shown that he's willing to shoot in order...
Moscow's Kosovo mediation will likely survive Boris Yeltsin's latest putsch, but Russia's economy may wind up as "collateral damage." The surest sign of that Thursday was the ruble's resumption of its precipitous plunge, which the Yevgeny Primakov government, fired by Yeltsin on Wednesday, had managed to halt. And investors had good reason to be very afraid. "The IMF has made clear it won't give Russia a cent until a new package of reform legislation has been passed," says TIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich. "There's no way a cabinet that doesn't yet exist will...
...Yeltsin is threatening to dissolve the Duma, the lower house of Russia's parliament, and call new elections unless his new pick for prime minister, Sergei Stepashin, is approved. That looked unlikely Thursday, as legislators proceeded with moves to impeach Yeltsin, setting the stage for a showdown. While the constitution allows Yeltsin to dissolve the legislature if it rejects his nominee three times, it also forbids dissolution of the Duma while impeachment proceedings are under way. That may look like a constitutional crisis in a Western democracy, but in Boris Yeltsin's Russia lawyers and judges...
...bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "The response of the market is the initial feeling of the panic at the void of the unknown opening up in front of them." Primakov had just secured a $4.5 billion stopgap loan from the IMF; that will have to be renegotiated, as will Russia's aid arrangements with the World Bank. Now that the Russian parliament is bracing for another round of reject-the-nominee and Moscow leadership is a vacuum once more, Europe is just waiting for the bleeding to start again...