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...hijacking a Turkish ferry loaded with Russians in the Turkish Black Sea port of Trabzon and taking 30 Russians hostage in their capital, Grozny, even as hostage-takers under withering Russian assault in Pervomayskaya, Dagestan, vowed to fight to the death. Chechens escalated the conflict as Russian President Boris Yeltsin shook up his cabinet, replacing Presidential Chief of Staff Sergei Filatov, one of the last remaining liberals in his administration, with hawk Nikolai Yegorov. The developments limn the increasingly desperate straits of both the Chechen separatists and Russian president Boris Yeltsin. For Yeltsin, says TIME's J.F.O. McAllister, "Chechnya...
President Boris Yeltsin accepted the resignation of his Foreign Minister, Andrei Kozyrev. In preparation for the critical presidential election in June, Yeltsin took the opportunity to rid himself of a minister who clashed with communists and nationalists, winners in last month's parliamentary elections. Kozyrev is identified with a strong pro-Western foreign policy...
Zarakhovich says the prevailing political winds favor more indiscriminate violence. Monday, Yeltsin appointed as his new chief of staff Nikolai Yegorov, an aide that he fired last year for mishandling another prominent hostage standoff with Chechen rebels. "This is a very ominous sign," says Zarakhovich. "He was one of the key people who engineered the war in Chechnya, and his policy was to kill all the Chechens." Beyond that, the newly-elected Communist Duma starts its first session Tuesday, and few in the plurality would treat the Chechens lightly. "Ever since the war stopped, this story has really been...
...rebels now demand that Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, who diffused a similar situation last June, take part in the negotiations. Unlike that crisis, Moscow this time has so far refused to enter talks. Russian President Boris Yeltsin is taking a hard-line approach. In Paris to attend the funeral of Francois Mitterrand, Yeltsin said he would agree to the rebel demand that Russian troops leave Chechnya, but only after the rebels agree to disarm. This essentially has been the Russian position for several months and a chief sticking point when peace talks collapsed last year...
MOSCOW: Russian President Boris Yeltsin named Yevgeny Primakov, a specialist in Middle Eastern affairs and head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, as the country's new foreign minister. In contrast to Andrei Kozyrev, ousted amidst charges from parliament of being too soft toward the West, Primakov is expected to turn the focus of Russia's foreign policy toward the Middle East and the former Soviet republics. "It's clear that Yeltsin wanted to find a successor who would not appear to be pro-Western," says Moscow bureau chief John Kohan. "Since Zhirinovsky and his supporters have put the nationalist...