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...rebels now demand that Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, who diffused a similar situation last June, take part in the negotiations. Unlike that crisis, Moscow this time has so far refused to enter talks. Russian President Boris Yeltsin is taking a hard-line approach. In Paris to attend the funeral of Francois Mitterrand, Yeltsin said he would agree to the rebel demand that Russian troops leave Chechnya, but only after the rebels agree to disarm. This essentially has been the Russian position for several months and a chief sticking point when peace talks collapsed last year...
...return for safe passage back to the Chechen republic, have threatened to start shooting the 160 remaining hostages unless the Russian Interior Ministry allows them to use another route. Although the Interfax news agency reports that Russian helicopters have fired several shots at the bus convoy, Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin promised that no action would be taken that would endanger the hostages' lives: "We aren't going to start frontal attacks, or act according to an eye-for-an-eye principle, since we feel convinced that death only brings death," he said. "But the bandits and the terrorists will...
...Yeltsin ended what his presidential news service called a "sojourn in a sanatorium" and returned to the Kremlin after two months of treatment and rest for acute coronary ischemia (restricted blood flow to the heart). Prior to his public appearance in the Kremlin, Yeltsin quickly met with Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin to map out potential strategies to deal with the strong showing of the Communist Party in the Dec. 17 parliamentary elections...
...said that the vote may cause the government to moderate its reform tactics: "It is necessary to draw conclusions from the results of the Sunday elections and to correct the course of reforms." Capturing an estimated 9.6 percent of the vote counted so far, Yeltsin ally and Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin's Our Home Russia party is a disappointing third in the race. Although the elections are seen by many as a rejection of the Yeltsin government, their immediate impact will be limited. Under Russia's new constitution, the President holds most of the political power in the country, meaning...
Triggering worldwide anxiety about Russian President Boris Yeltsin's health, Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin took on more of the day-to-day governance of the country. Although Chernomyrdin said Yeltsin will still make all major decisions, the ministries of Defense, Foreign Affairs, the Interior and Security have been reporting to Chernomyrdin. At week's end, Yeltsin appeared for less than a minute on Russian television, looking wan and puffy and slurring his speech. He is scheduled to remain in the hospital until the end of the month...