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Recovering from heart surgery, President Boris Yeltsin last week sent an upbeat, forward-looking letter to President Clinton. Its premise: the U.S. needs a strong Russia as a partner in the 21st century. We agree: we have a clear-cut national interest in the continuing transformation of Russia into a democratic, stable, secure, prosperous state, at peace with its neighbors, fully integrated into the global economy. That process will take a generation or more, and it will require steady support from the international community...
...week or so preceding the operation, the pro-Yeltsin media did their best to enhance Chernomyrdin's image, showing an avuncular, accordion-playing man of the people--unchanged by the enormous wealth that some specialists claim he has accumulated thanks to his connections with Russia's oil and gas industry. But when it comes to real political power, Chubais will probably retain the inside edge. In large part this will be because of his close political relationship with Dyachenko. A near contemporary of Chubais'--she was born in 1960, he in 1955--and like him highly educated, Dyachenko has emerged...
Dyachenko's influence dates back to last March, when Yeltsin, his popularity rating in single digits, rejected calls from Korzhakov and others to postpone the elections and decided instead to try what seemed to be the impossible: go all out to win. He dumped the drinking cronies who were botching his re-election bid and turned to the tough, hard-nosed Chubais. He also began spending more time with his family, a source close to Yeltsin said, and started listening to his daughter. Chubais set up a new inner campaign team. Numbering fewer than 10 people, they called themselves...
...reason Alexander Lebed was chosen to be Russia's national security adviser in the first place is clear [WORLD, Oct. 28]: President Boris Yeltsin needed to win the election, and the only way to get his major opponent, Lebed, out of the way was to join forces with him and put him into one of the highest positions in the country. Because of this smooth move, Yeltsin won the presidential election, while Lebed walked right into a trap. He was too blind and inexperienced politically to see that dropping out of the race for President and going to work...
Lebed failed to notice the approaching danger and even dug his own grave by starting quarrels with major political figures like Interior Minister Anatoli Kulikov and presidential chief of staff Anatoli Chubais. And although Yeltsin has had trouble with his health and with control of the Kremlin, firing Lebed was not risky, since most of the Kremlin's leading figures wanted him out anyway. Yeltsin planned the coming and going of Lebed from the very beginning, and Lebed naively gave him a helping hand. SANDER ANTEN Amsterdam Via E-mail...