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Mingling with the powerful and the famous is a bit of a rush, whether it's Woody Harrelson arriving fashionably late, Ted Sorensen dozing off in the corner or Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, his wife and Russian official Sergei Karaganov conversing and laughing in Russian...
...have a better chance of succeeding peacefully and more quickly than if Zyuganov takes power. For besides his economic changes, Yeltsin's true legacy thus far has been his acquiescence in the decentralization of power. "It has shifted dramatically downward from the Kremlin and outward from Moscow," says Strobe Talbott. The result is that Russia is fast becoming a pluralistic nation, but it has yet to make the transition to a civil society...
...answer can be found in the abuse Yeltsin received in Yaroslavl. "A lot of Russians have come to identify various aspects of what we call reform not with a better future but with hardship," explains U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (and former TIME editor at large) Strobe Talbott, who oversees the Clinton Administration's Russia policy. "Crime and corruption are both broad based and deeply rooted," Talbott says. "They pose huge obstacles to Russia staying on a reformist course. [So] Russians tend to identify reform not only with hardship but with physical danger and gross inequity...
Deutch encourages such admiration by spreading himself thick across the corridors of power. His squash partner is Clinton's Oxford classmate and Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott. Deutch likes playing hardball. William Perry, the Secretary of Defense, is not only Deutch's ex-boss at the Pentagon but also his former business partner. Deutch knows how to make stone-faced Secretary of State Warren Christopher laugh. At the Prime Rib, a tony Washington restaurant, he swaps spy stories with Senator Specter. Says Talbott: "The first words that come to mind when you interact with John: energy, enthusiasm, focus...
...other liberal candidates, such as reformist politician Grigori Yavlinsky. But is the White House working to promote these candidates? Well, er..."What we will say to the Russian people repeatedly is not that you should vote for this candidate or that candidate," explains Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott. "That's their business. What we can do is say, 'Here is what the U.S. believes in; here is what the U.S. stands for; here is the kind of world that we hope Russia will work with us to build.' But Russia can do that only if it maintains a fundamentally...