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...head sunk in his hands, his lips tight in a glum line as reporters badgered him about Monica. Boris Yeltsin next to him, befuddled and disoriented as he struggled to link answers coherently to questions. When a journalist asked whether the Russian President would accept someone other than Viktor Chernomyrdin as nominee for Prime Minister, Yeltsin paused for a moment that grew painfully long. "Well," he finally said, "I must say, we will witness quite a few events for us to be able to achieve these results. That...
MOSCOW: He may not hold many cards, but declining to play them allows Boris Yeltsin to control the game. Yeltsin kept Russia on tenterhooks Wednesday, waiting to hear whether the president would renominate Viktor Chernomyrdin or accept a compromise candidate as prime minister. "The reason for Yeltsin's silence isn't clear," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "He's known to withdraw and get depressed when he's under pressure. But it could also be a maneuver to keep everyone off balance -- it's certainly having that effect...
Moscow has had no functioning government since Aug. 23, when President Boris Yeltsin dismissed his young Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko. His successor, acting Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, is under heavy pressure from the communist-dominated Duma. Parliamentarians are pushing aggressively for a greater say in running the country. Yelstin had kept them from real power but seemed prepared last weekend to surrender many of his presidential prerogatives. The communists have called for currency controls, re-nationalization and printing more rubles. On the weekend, however, Chernomyrdin went on TV to reassure Russia--and probably the West as well--that there would...
What faith can anyone put in Boris Yeltsin's words? Five months ago, the Russian President said Viktor Chernomyrdin was not good enough to be Prime Minister and fired him. Last week he hired him back as the "heavyweight" who could save Russia from collapse...
...Viktor Aksyuchits, an aide to former Vice Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov and one of Berezovsky's most outspoken critics, claims that the banker succeeded, as he has so often done before, by gaining intimate access to Yeltsin's closest advisers, chief of staff Valentin Yumashev and younger daughter Tatyana Dyachenko. Yumashev is a "wholly privatized" Berezovsky subsidiary, says Aksyuchits, and Dyachenko is allegedly beholden to Berezovsky for his handling the family's finances and making generous contributions to her father's re-election. Both advisers have for several months been privately urging Yeltsin to stand down, Aksyuchits tells TIME: "They...