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With any luck, advisers to Russian President Boris Yeltsin stoically insist, the political paralysis that has gripped Russia since his re-election last July will be over by Christmas: Yeltsin will be back at work after a successful heart-bypass operation, and the country will resume its shamble toward what ordinary Russians wistfully call political "normality." Few believe this will happen, though. Most people, including presidential intimates and senior government officials, suspect that Yeltsin is seriously ill, will require much more than a bypass and may not survive. Last week his prospective surgeon, Renat Akchurin, revealed in press interviews that...
...Rinat Akchurin, 50, the heart surgeon who may have the daunting honor of operating on President Boris Yeltsin, was nowhere to be found last week. His answering machine invited callers to leave a message; his colleagues said he was resting. And by late last week, despite its new commitment to openness about Yeltsin's health, the Kremlin had not said when the operation would be performed or where and by whom...
...Saturday, the Kremlin announced that Yeltsin had entered Moscow's Central Clinic Hospital for routine preoperative tests. This does not seem to indicate that the operation is imminent. In fact, there are signs it may not happen until October, rather than late September, as originally announced. The main reason seems to be the fear, voiced in the medical world and circles close to the Kremlin, that Yeltsin's health problems may be more serious. "A heart bypass is pretty conventional surgery," says an experienced Moscow surgeon. But, he adds, "the President seems to show symptoms of general atherosclerosis." This makes...
...Boris Yeltsin is not the only foreign leader who has solicited American medical assistance. Other world leaders have had no qualms about coming to America for care...
Your report "Is Yeltsin Really in Charge?" [WORLD, Sept. 2] raised some relevant questions about the state of Russia today. Of special concern is the decay of Yeltsin's once commanding role as the bold leader of the newly democratic Russia into a leader who exists in name only. There is a desperate search for the man who once championed the advent of democracy in Russia. What ever happened to the leader who stood fast and courageously held back military tanks for the good of the people? The man whom millions saw in that role is now available only...