Word: yaroslavl
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...Kremlin recluse. And his inner circle of aides, forever jockeying for position, seem to have concluded long ago that bearing bad news to their boss is the least career-enhancing service they can render. Given his insularity, the President's wide-eyed wonder at the pounding he took in Yaroslavl was not surprising. "The complaints here," a dejected Yeltsin told a local television interviewer, "they're everywhere. These weren't just single cases. The people complained en masse...
Ivan Morozov, a Communist Party district leader in Yaroslavl, is a typical lieutenant in Zyuganov's ground war. "We work through factory people and teachers who are Communists," he says. "A lot of what we do is illegal. We're not supposed to push Zyuganov in the workplace or in schools, but we do it anyway. And we're training people to be at the polls to guard against Yeltsin's cheating...
...would a people so recently freed from totalitarian rule choose a course that could quickly lead to their renewed oppression? Part of the answer can be found in the abuse Yeltsin received in Yaroslavl. "A lot of Russians have come to identify various aspects of what we call reform not with a better future but with hardship," explains U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (and former TIME editor at large) Strobe Talbott, who oversees the Clinton Administration's Russia policy. "Crime and corruption are both broad based and deeply rooted," Talbott says. "They pose huge obstacles to Russia staying...
...Russia today "freedom shock," to use Guzman's term, is explained succinctly by Roman, a 42-year-old taxi driver in Yaroslavl. "People have no concept of freedom," he says. "They substitute freedom of action for freedom of thought. They see freedom as license. They don't realize freedom requires self-discipline. They fear that freedom leads to anarchy. They view it as the ability, if one can, to lord it over those weaker than they are." This may explain why, in a survey of almost 2,500 Russians conducted in January by Richard Rose, a professor at the University...
...Moscow this year, Yeltsin urged trade unionists to help him "keep an eye" on the regional officials who had not yet distributed the funds he insisted had already been sent to them. In Yaroslavl two days later, he confidently announced nonpayment was not a problem in the surrounding province. "The governor is standing right here," Yeltsin said, "and he assures me the salaries have been paid." When the crowd cried, "No, no!"--an assessment later confirmed in several interviews--he ignored...