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There are Russian businessmen richer than Boris Berezovsky but few with more political clout. More than anyone else in Russia today, Berezovsky personifies the way two dark spheres--the often violent world of Big Business and the secretive nature of Kremlin politics--intersect. Confidants of President Boris Yeltsin have come and gone, but Berezovsky's influence has not waned...
...that will weaken reform has worn thin in the face of polls that show average Russians don't care about the issue. Albright arrived armed with a package of proposals to make the accession of Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic to the western alliance more palatable to the Yeltsin government. Included were a charter to link Russia to the alliance, unilateral arms reductions and a joint NATO-Russian brigade for peacekeeping operations. "It is no longer us versus you or you versus us," she told a news conference. "We are on the same side." Albright later met with...
...launched." The new Secretary faces a challenging agenda. In Europe, she aims to develop a consensus among U.S. European allies on NATO policy toward Russia, soothe Moscow's worries over the July kick-off of NATO's eastward expansion and size up the chances that an ailing President Boris Yeltsin will be able to see an agreement through. Then, on a whirlwind tour of South Korea, Japan and China, she will stress American strategic interests in Asia while walking a tricky three-way tightwire linking Seoul, Beijing and Pyongyang over the recent defection of North Korean Hwang Jang...
TULA, Russia: Six months after he was ousted in a Kremlin power struggle, former Yeltsin bodyguard and right-hand man Alexander Korzhakov has returned to power and is threatening to uncover a dark history of Kremlin corruption. Korzhakov's election to parliament, which gives him the added benefit of immunity from prosecution, gives him a significant base to work against archrival Anatoly Chubais as they jockey in preparation for Russian after Yeltsin. Before his ouster last July, Korzhakov had worked for Yeltsin since his days as head of the Moscow Communist Party. He emerged in the Russian press...
Late last week both Chernomyrdin and Chubais put out the word that the President is on the mend. As if to reinforce that perception, Yeltsin announced on Friday that he was opposed to any "hasty" changes in the constitution. He also made a couple of appearances at the Kremlin but they served only to underscore the harsh fact that Yeltsin's primary task these days is simply to keep himself upright and ticking. If he can manage that, the Kremlin may be able to stave off an early election and avoid succumbing to the impulse to tamper with an already...