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MOSCOW: Desperate to show that Russia stands behind the wobbly Mir, the Kremlin has at last hit on a sure-fire PR coup: They're blasting Boris Yeltsin's trusty military advisor into space. Yuri Baturin, secretary of the Defense Council and high-profile cheerleader for the country's troubled space program, will make the trip to Mir some time next year for a stay of unspecified duration. And, by all accounts, he's raring to go. The physically fit, 48-year-old Baturin has already performed a few "aerobatic maneuvers" on a supersonic SU-30 fighter and has undergone...
...years he kept Boris Yeltsin in his sights. But now the President's former bodyguard and top adviser, ALEXANDER KORZHAKOV is taking aim at his ex-boss. In Boris Yeltsin: From Dawn to Dusk, he depicts Yeltsin as a vodka-swilling wreck of a man. (He's even selling off the family album--his snapshots of Yeltsin hanging out in Sochi.) One unsubstantiated secret he claims: when Yeltsin sent in tanks against his foes in Russia's White House in 1993, he celebrated before the battle was won in what Korzhakov says was his usual fashion: by getting thoroughly soused...
MOSCOW: Most Russians would happily admit they have no idea what the National Idea Commission is for. Trouble is, neither does the National Idea Commission. Boris Yeltsin summoned this august group of intellectuals in the aftermath of his narrow 1996 election victory, and charged them with finding out what the big idea was ? in other words, what makes Russia Russian now that Communism's gone? Well, after a year of extremely deep thought, the Commission has reconvened to tell the world: Sorry, we haven't a clue...
Understandably, Foale's original crewmates, Vasili Tsibliyev and Alexander Lazutkin, probably won't be too sad about leaving Mir later this week. But even on Earth, their mission may continue to haunt them. Russian President Boris Yeltsin last week raised "the human factor" as the likely source of Mir's troubles. And adding to Tsibliyev's public embarrassment, Russian officials disclosed that because he was guiding Progress when it plowed into Spektr, he may not get his full flight bonus for his difficult six months in space...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: Not since Boris Yeltsin danced that frenzied jig during his presidential campaign has there been such musical nuttiness among the world's leaders. Dressed in sultry black, with a red orchid in her hair and femme-fatale red on her lips, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright held an audience of foreign ministers spellbound Monday night as she belted out a rendition of "Don't Cry For Me" at a diplomatic dinner...