Word: viktor
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...rebel group, defied Grachev, saying: "Let them come and storm the place." Negotiations in the three-day old crisis have hit a standstill as the 200 rebels holed up inside the building rejected an offer of safe passage to Chechnya or any country willing to accept them. Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin is on his way to attempt a peaceful resolution, but his chances appear slim. The gunmen have killed five hostages already, and Basayev, who had lost all 11 members of his family to the war with Russia, insists that the Chechens will kill themselves and their captives unlessRussian troops...
...residents in the wreckage of brick and concrete buildings. In Neftegorsk, cries of pain were heard amid the rubble, the whole area clouded by thick smoke from fires sparked by the quake. At least 2,000 people were feared dead. "The whole town collapsed," Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin told Russian television. Japan and South Korea immediately offered to send emergency teams and financial aid to help in the effort. By late Monday, rescuers had located 938 survivors, evacuating the most seriously injured to hospitals hundreds of miles away in Khabarovsk and Okha on the mainland. At the same time...
...Russian officials includingPresident Boris Yeltsinannounced plans to form acentrist political movementto combat what they see as political extremism that has hobbled Western-style reforms. "Russia has had enough revolutions," Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin said today in Moscow. "Russia is our home and we must make every effort to ensure stability and restore order in it." The move underscores Yeltsin's shift away from the liberal forces that brought him to power, and at the same time snubs both pro- and anti-Western extremists who have dominated the Russian parliament for two years...
Russia refused to cancel itssale of nuclear reactorsto Iran, despite Defense Secretary William Perry's warning during talks in Moscow today thatthe dealcould enable Iran to build a nuclear weapons arsenal. Perry said that while Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin assured him that Russia will make sure Iran does not use plutonium from the reactors to manufacture weapons, the U.S. is not confident that Russia can do so. TIME senior editor George Russell says Russia sees Iran as a "major ideological threat," a key Muslim power with links to Muslims in the southern tier of the former Soviet Union...
Russian tanks and artillery stepped up theirshelling of the presidential palace in Groznytoday, hours before Moscow offered a cease-fire beginning at midnight EST. Oddly, word of the possible truce first came from Sergei Kovalyov, Russia's human rights commissioner, who quoted Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, a rival of President Boris Yeltsin, as saying: "This is only the beginning of the negotiation process." The Russian announcement was unclear on whether a cease-fire could begin unless the Chechens agree to such severe terms as laying down their arms, retreating from key positions and accepting Russian political control.TIME State Department...