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...transformations under way in Russia, the one at the top will have to be watched most carefully: Boris Yeltsin is turning into Leonid Brezhnev right before our eyes. In a rerun of the Kremlin drama circa 1978, the President is ever more frail and shambling, his eyes glazed and his speech slurred. He rules like a czar--from on high, without much attention to detail, and by decree. Like Brezhnev, Yeltsin has no intention of stepping down, and the people around him will do anything to keep him in power, lest they lose their own. Last week they launched what...
MOSCOW: Don?t believe the hype: President Boris Yeltsin and his Communist opposition may appear to be headed for a showdown over Yeltsin?s new prime minister, but they?re just going through the motions, says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. ?Nobody wants a confrontation because it?s not in anybody?s interest. If they can?t agree, Yeltsin will dissolve parliament and hold new elections. The Communists may not like Yeltsin?s choice for prime minister, but they like the idea of facing the voters even less,? says Quinn-Judge. So, after a ritual showdown, Yeltsin will...
...Pustule's election might not be so embarrassing for Boris Yeltsin's government if it hadn't happened in Nizhni Novgorod. Moscow has long proclaimed the city a showcase of Russia's reform program...
MOSCOW: The tycoons whose money reelected Boris Yeltsin in 1996 have chosen their presidential candidate for 2000, and it's not "Czar Boris" -- it's the man he fired as prime minister last Monday. Viktor Chernomyrdin commands only 5.7 percent in the polls, but his backers point out that Yeltsin's numbers looked no better at the start of the 1996 campaign...
...with the Communists. They feel safe with him because he's likely to ensure business as usual." That's assuming they can get the public to elect a man who, Quinn-Judge says, shows no discernible charisma, is unable to speak in public and has been publicly humiliated by Yeltsin. But first they have to get the unpredictable President to actually step down when his term ends...