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Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin stands to govern Russia in Yeltsin's stead, at least until elections are held on March 26. Famed for his tough stance against Chechen separatists, Putin is confident in his new post. Unlike Yeltsin, Putin is a relatively youthful 47 years old and doesn't have to worry about his own health in addition to that of his country. The former KGB insider is a career opportunist whose first act as prime minister was to offer Yeltsin immunity from prosecution...
Russia's campaign in Chechnya is in trouble, and acting president Vladimir Putin is taking no chances. The Russian military announced Friday that it had been ordered to "temporarily halt" the assault on Grozny, and that Moscow's two leading commanders in Chechnya would be returning to their former posts. "This is as close as we're going to get to an official admission that Russian forces have hit a wall in Grozny," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "It's a major turning point...
...Vladimir Putin may be the man to beat in Russia's presidential election, but first he must get through the Chechnya primary. Russia's parliament on Wednesday scheduled the election to choose Boris Yeltsin's successor for March 26, and the results of December's parliamentary elections suggest that acting president Putin has a commanding lead over his likely rivals - former prime minister Yevgeny Primakov, Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov and ultra-nationalist fringe candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky. But although Russia's campaign in Chechnya has propelled Putin from obscurity to presidential front-runner, setbacks on the military front could hurt...
...traditionally a presidential attribute. Yet Russians woke up to their New Year?s day hangovers to find themselves ruled by a man who has never given a press conference and whose official biography is only eight lines long. Even those who have probed the background of acting President Vladimir Putin have turned up little about his days in the KGB, his attitude to political and economic reform in Russia and his relationship with the country?s shadowy financial oligarchy...
...killing two policemen and recalling that city's heyday as the mayhem capital of the Middle East. The attacks followed weeks of protest by local Islamic militants against Russia's military campaign in Chechnya, which the U.S. warned Sunday could become an albatross around the neck of acting President Vladimir Putin if he's unable to find an exit strategy...