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MOSCOW: "Russia's government is a presidential system created by Yeltsin, for Yeltsin," says TIME's Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. Lately, that system has broken down, stalled by Boris Yeltsin's fading health. Sidelined by heart trouble and a recent case of pneumonia, Yeltsin has been able to work very little since winning re-election last July. Yeltsin has been convalescing in Moscow's Central Clinical Hospital for a week now, and his doctors now say he will remain hospitalized at least through the end of this week. In his absence, Communist Deputy Viktor Ilyukhin, backed by ultranationalist...
MOSCOW: By all accounts, Boris Yeltsin is recovering nicely from a bout with pneumonia and may be back at the Kremlin full-time within four weeks. But by the time that happens, Yeltsin may have, politically, a terminal case of the Lebeds. Last week, the former security chief and presidential candidate called Yeltsin an "old, sick man" who should resign for the good of Russia. Sunday, Lebed was talking about new elections that would take place, presumably, well before Yeltsin's term ends in 2000. "I want to become president and I will," Lebed said. "I'm ready...
MOSCOW: Boris Yeltsin's bout of pneumonia may be nothing more than what his press aides claim: an illness that will be gone in a week or two, a mere worsening of the flu that has gripped 64,000 Muscovites during this frigid winter. But as TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge notes, the latest medical emergency only underlines a sobering reality, that the Boris Yeltsin of today is a pale shadow of the dynamic leader of 1992. While Yeltsin continues to represent stability in Russia to his supporters at home and admirers abroad, the vigorous President Yeltsin they...
SICK MAN OF THE YEAR (EUROPE):Boris Yeltsin...
...celebrated personalities of the year came and went and blurred into one another. Boris Yeltsin became Ted Kaczynski became Princess Di became all three doing the macarena. While one faintly struggled to discern Rene Russo from Sandra Bullock and Michael Eisner from Michael Ovitz, Madonna singled herself out by producing a child. Setting a high financial standard for single motherhood, she exulted, "This is the greatest miracle of my life"--a cry not generally echoed in parts of the country where 48% of the children were born to single mothers. Rosie O'Donnell threw her a baby shower, her pediatrician...