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Yeltsin suspects his supporters' Constitutional Court challenge to this requirement will not succeed, because the Chief Justice, Valeri Zorkin, has joined forces with the parliamentary camp in earlier struggles. If his suspicion is correct, he will issue a decree dismissing the new majority provision as "a crude violation of the constitution and the law on referendums." In other words, if he gains the approval of a simple majority of those who vote, he will raise his own hand as the winner. Once that is done, he says, he intends to be "more decisive" in pursuing a "whole package" of initiatives...
...court's Chief Justice Valeri Zorkin did not use the word impichment in his advisory opinion, but that did not slow down Khasbulatov. "It's absolutely clear," he insisted, "that there are grounds for initiating the impeachment process." Members of the parliament weren't all as sure. Khasbulatov settled the debate by ramming through a summons to the parliament's parent body, the 1,033-member Congress of People's Deputies, to meet on Friday to consider removing Yeltsin from office...
...mill churned out one pro-Yeltsin story after another -- and no one much cared if they were highly exaggerated or totally wrong. How turncoat Vice President Alexander Rutskoi pinched a copy of Yeltsin's unfinished decree on "special rule" and gave it to the opposition. How Constitutional Court chairman Valeri Zorkin brazenly handed the grieving Yeltsin a copy of the court's negative verdict at his mother's funeral...
...medals. The only question was, In what order? The suspense continued right to the end of the last event, when Scherbo of Belarus took the top mark on the rings, a 9.9, which secured him the gold. Ukraine's Grigory Misutin, 21, took silver, while the bronze went to Valeri Belenky, 22, of Azerbaijan...
...gave way to strong support for the Yeltsin government's tough fiscal policies. The latest compromise raises questions, once again, about what the West can do to bail out Russia. But it is Russians, feeling the bite of the reforms, who fail to understand that, as Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Makharadze points out, "if this government is toppled, there will be no reforms...