Word: sochi
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...biggest, Russia and Ukraine, have been bitterly at odds over such issues as ownership of the 300-ship Black Sea Fleet and issuing rival currencies. Meeting at the resort town of Sochi last week, Yeltsin and Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk took off their coats, put on their smiles and worked out an 18-point agreement. They pledged coordination of policies on currency and trade and reached a tentative compromise on dividing the fleet but sharing the bases. It was, said Kravchuk, "a fundamental turn in relations...
...satirical farce. Substitute some Russian names, and it becomes a straightforward recitation of facts. Vice President Alexander Rutskoi really did report to the Russian parliament early in October that he had tried a dozen times to reach the vacationing President Boris Yeltsin at the Black Sea resort of Sochi to ask what was to be done about a looming crisis, but failed. In reality as in fantasy, the script was singularly unfunny. As the first snows start to fall and a difficult winter looms, Russia is paralyzed by a web of incompetence. The wave of hope that swept the country...
Even so, the current paralysis constitutes melancholy proof that leaders who can arouse a populace against dictatorship are not necessarily -- or even usually -- equally proficient at forming a new government. Yeltsin's sojourn in Sochi continues a distressing pattern predating the revolution: Yeltsin tends to follow two or three months of intense activity with a few weeks of idleness during which he virtually drops out of sight. Whether the cause is simple exhaustion, a recurring physical disorder (there are rumors of heart trouble) or some psychological hang-up is unclear...