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SINCE 1993, AMERICAN POLICY TOWARD RUSSIA HAS rested on two pillars: enthusiastic support for a series of economic measures designed to create a market economy in Russia--a revolutionary transformation often misleadingly called "reform"; and public identification with the political fortunes of President Boris Yeltsin. Those policies were right for '93. They are wrong for '96. It is time for a change...
...only possible long-term solution. A counterinsurgency war would be expensive and bloody, and the Russian armed forces are obviously not up to the job. In any case, their commanders should have learned in Afghanistan that conventional armies do badly when pitted against highly motivated guerrillas. If Yeltsin chooses to fight, by election day in June he could be under political attack from both sides: hawkish rivals criticizing the unsuccessful conduct of the war and doves calling for negotiations...
Reflecting growing frustration with Chechen rebels, who have proved annoyingly tenacious in their fight for secession, Russian President Boris Yeltsin ordered the Russian army, police and security forces to attack the village of Pervomaiskoye, where some 300 Chechen rebels held more than 100 civilians hostage. Yeltsin claimed that 82 people were released in the sledgehammer operation, but the village was destroyed and some of the terrorists--reportedly including their leader, Salman Raduyev, related by marriage to Jokhar Dudayev, the chief rebel leader--escaped back into Chechnya...
...YELTSIN BOOTS LAST LIBERAL...
Bowing to hard-line critics of his government's economic reforms, Russian President Boris Yeltsin accepted the resignation of Anatoly Chubais, the chief strategist of that restructuring effort and the last prominent liberal in Yeltsin's Cabinet...