Word: sobchak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...question now is whether Yeltsin has the physical and mental stamina to keep that high-risk approach going. "Yeltsin is always capable of something unexpected," says Anatoli Sobchak, the former mayor of St. Petersburg. "He seems to have lost all his strength and then he recuperates." But each recuperation appears to exact a heavier toll, and bouts of hyperactivity are followed by longer and longer periods of inaction and illness. That is no long-term prescription for keeping control of a country as unruly as Russia today...
...What I am most concerned about is how theChechen conflict will effect the next elections,"Sobchak said...
...Sobchak is a prominent Russian politician whowas offered the vice presidency by Yeltsin butdeclined...
...Sobchak shared one of his ideas for continuingthe modernization of Russia while keepingunemployment low, borrowed from American PresidentFranklin Delano Roosevelt '04, who was a Crimsoneditor...
...Sobchak said the current mindset of the Russianpeople will be the greatest political obstacle in1996...