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OVER THE YEARS, YEKATERINburg has been good to Boris Yeltsin. It was in this industrial city in the Urals that Russia's first freely elected President spent his boyhood years. It was here that he built his early career in the Communist Party. And it was to Yekaterinburg that he came, in 1991, to inaugurate his campaign for the presidency. The city has been an auspicious place for him, which is why he returned there last Thursday to launch his bid for re-election...
...some time, and have already factored billions from the IMF into future budget predictions. The loan comes at a convenient time. Russia's economy is heavily burdened by the cost of the Chechnya war, and the loan may indirectly take some pressure off. There may also be benefits for Yeltsin's reelection campaign, since the IMF considers better social security part of the reform process, a belief which dovetails nicely with Yeltsin's electioneering promises to devote resources to the needs of ordinary Russians. But the IMF is not supporting the Russian President's election campaign. "The IMF wants Russia...
MOSCOW: The only Russian politician who might be less popular than Boris Yeltsin has may soon declare his candidacy for President. Mikhail S. Gorbachev said today that he is inclined to run, but that the Russian voters will have to wait a while for an official announcement. Gorbachev feels that he could unite reformers, and carry the banner of change himself. He accuses Yeltsin's regime of "bringing people to poverty and the country to ruin under the slogans of reform." Gorbachev says he has some success collecting the one million signatures required to appear on the ballot. but even...
YEKATERINBURG, RUSSIA: Despite failing health and a dismal standing in the polls, Boris Yeltsin has decided to seek a second term as president of Russia. "I am sure I can bring the country through troubles, anxiety and uncertainty," Yeltsin said in an announcement speech to crowds in his Ural Mountain hometown. Facing steadily rising unpopularity over the state of the Russian economy and his conduct of the war in Chechnya, Yeltsin is seeking to appeal to voters as the only acceptable alternative to communist and nationalist candidates that he says would turn back from reforms. "I spend sleepless nights analyzing...
...exploded in a crowd of antiwar protestors camping in front of the bombed out presidential palace in Chechnya. The demonstrators are calling for the withdrawal of Russian troops and the end of the Chechen war, which has killed as many as 30,000 since fighting began last December. Yeltsin ruled out unconditional withdrawal, saying that a "total slaughter" would sweep Chechnya if the Russians left, which is surprising since Grozny was razed, and casualties mounted only after the Russian army invaded. Although Yeltsin realizes how low he has sunk in pre-election polls, his press secretary, Sergei Medvedev, says Yeltsin...