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...recent expression of the policy came earlier this month when U.S. State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns, commenting on Yeltsin's dismissal of Deputy Prime Minister Anatoli Chubais--the sole surviving pro-market official in the Cabinet--asserted that it was "absolutely essential" for Yeltsin to "reaffirm the reform basis of the Russian government...
...firing Chubais, Yeltsin was looking to his own political future, in particular the Russian presidential election scheduled for June. He was responding to the results of December's vote for the Russian parliament, the Duma, in which most successful candidates had campaigned as opponents of the measures with which Chubais was associated. The American government was thus, in effect, urging Yeltsin to commit political suicide...
...second pillar of America's Russia policy, the embrace of President Yeltsin, reflects the understandable preference for the familiar. The June election may well produce a worse Russian President from the American point of view. But singling Yeltsin out for U.S. support will not improve his electoral chances, and, like gratuitous economic advice, gives offense to the Russian public, which has, after all, the right to choose its own leaders...
...Yeltsin's Prime Minister, Victor Chernomyrdin, visits Washington this week, it is appropriate, indeed essential, for the American government to make its views known on an area of Russian policy in which the U.S. and other countries have a legitimate interest as well as some influence: foreign policy. It is essential to insist on Russian compliance with treaties limiting nuclear and non-nuclear armaments and also vital to insist on Russian respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of its neighbors that were once republics of the Soviet Union and are now independent countries--especially the Baltic states and Ukraine...
...proper goal of American policy toward its former cold-war rival remains in 1996 what it was in '93: a peaceful, democratic, prosperous Russia fully integrated into the international community. The appropriate tactics, however, are different. In '93, with Yeltsin politically strong and communist economic institutions and practices still intact, it was right for the U.S. to give active support to the creation of a market economy in Russia. Now, with Yeltsin politically weak, much of the work of destroying the communist economic system accomplished and a backlash against its inevitable costs cresting, the American activism of three years...