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Despite the recent resurgence of the Communist Party, Boris Yeltsin will likely be re-elected president of Russia, a panel of Russian political experts told an audience of about 250 at the Kennedy School of Government's Arco Forum last night...
Panel-member Sergei Kolsenikov, a senior adviser to Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, said Yeltsin will prevail in the June elections because of his political record...
...Even as the withdrawal was announced, fighting continued in Chechnya. A spokesmen for the Russian military say its soldiers are only returning fire when attacked, but witnesses say the Russian army continues to conduct offensives against Chechen villages. Despite rolling out a peace proposal last month, Russian President Boris Yeltsin has so far been unable to bring Chechen leader Jokar Dudayev to negotiate. Dudayev has repeatedly said he will not negotiate until Russian troops leave the republic, and has also demanded direct negotiations with Yeltsin, complete independence for Chechnya, and the dismissal of some of Yeltsin's cabinet. A meeting...
...theme has come up elsewhere. In remarks to Russian newspapers, Yeltsin's chief of staff has also raised the possibility that the elections would be called off. The U.S. is confident the elections will be held, but Secretary of State Warren Christopher sought reassurance when he met with Russian officials last week in Moscow. "Yeltsin is not going to give up power," says a senior Russian defense analyst. "His team will do everything it can to hold on to the Kremlin." How could the vote be prevented? Sources have told Time that top commanders of Yeltsin's powerful Security Service...
Another strategy the report discusses is to actually allow the war in Chechnya to worsen. When things became bad enough, as the report puts it, Yeltsin could declare "an emergency concentration of power in the hands of the President for the sake of restoring constitutional order." There is no provision in the Russian constitution that allows for canceling elections because of a state of emergency. However, the rules for imposing a state of emergency do empower the President to ban meetings and mass rallies and to suspend political parties. Holding elections under such restrictions would be almost impossible...