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...Boris Yeltsin just has a cold, says the Kremlin. (Colds are dangerous in Russia. Leonid Brezhnev had a "cold" and it turned out he was gravely ill, addicted to sedatives and barely functional; Konstantin Chernenko had a "cold" and vanished behind Kremlin walls; Yuri Andropov had a "cold" and was dead in weeks.) Well, maybe flu. (Last time Yeltsin admitted to "flu" it was really pneumonia, and he was out of action for two months.) But there's no cause for alarm, officials claimed last week: the President will keep working while he is resting for 10 or 12 days...
...magnates, Boris Berezovsky and Vladimir Gusinsky. The classic weapons of Russian politics are being used: compromising documents known as kompromat, the media, envoys shuttling back and forth across the Atlantic to persuade the Clinton Administration that Chubais is soiled goods. They have already crippled him; two weeks ago, Boris Yeltsin removed him from the key position of Finance Minister. But Chubais' enemies will not rest until they have finished him off completely...
...Sick is Yeltsin? The Russian President is hospitalized. Let the in-fighting begin...
MOSCOW: When Boris Yeltsin sneezes, Russia?s political system faces a crippling cold, according to TIME?s Moscow Bureau Chief Paul Quinn-Judge. President Yeltsin was hospitalized Wednesday for what aides described as an ?acute respiratory viral infection that developed out of a cold,? and will spend at least 10 days at a clinic outside Moscow...
...soon to say whether his current bout of illness is cause for alarm: ?This time we could get off lightly, but nobody knows,? says Quinn-Judge. ?Yeltsin?s administration provides very little information about the president?s health...