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...feet for five hours praising both socialism and multinational corporations in a bravura if not altogether convincing performance. And Viktor Chernomyrdin, the Prime Minister of Russia, taking questions in Moscow's White House on topics ranging from the extent of government corruption to his relationship with Boris Yeltsin. And Do Muoi, Vietnam's Communist Party chief, asking for more foreign investment and affirming that it would be just fine if the path to pure communism first made the Vietnamese rich. Last week these leaders and others around the world agreed to an unusual experience: a prolonged, unscripted press conference that...
...interviewed. We visited a budding stock exchange and splashy Western stores. We met opposition parliamentarians as well as Chernomyrdin. Standing beneath the crest of the Czars--a huge gold double-headed eagle--he criticized Washington's plans for expanding NATO, affirmed he "was on the same team as President Yeltsin," despite speculation that they might both run for President next year, and asked the West to be patient in helping Russia modernize. "You can never go to sleep in one system and wake up in another," he said...
...stentorian tone seldom employed at presidential press conferences, Yeltsin excoriated reporters for predicting that the meeting would be a disaster. "Well, now for the first time I can tell you that YOU'RE a disaster," he said, sending a beet-red President Clinton into a such fits of laughter that took him nearly a minute to compose himself...
...before he leaves for France and then a New York summit with President Clinton, Boris Yeltsin suggested that he would fire his longest-serving senior official, Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev. The statement, an almost offhanded response to a reporter's question, was widely interpreted as a capitulation to Russian nationalists who claim Kozyrev kowtows to the West. But TIME's Sally Donnelly reports that the Russian President is playing a subtler game. "Yeltsin said much the same thing on September 8. Kozyrev won't be fired anytime soon. But if he's going to make political points with Vladimir Zhirinovsky...
RUSSIA'S PACIFIST ATTITUDE TOWARD Bosnia is ironic [COVER STORIES, Sept. 11]. Nine months ago, President Boris Yeltsin mutilated the city of Grozny and reduced it to rubble with artillery, ground troops and air strikes. In fact, Russian leaders repudiated any proposals for negotiations by the Chechen side and dismissed reports of human-rights violations and appalling atrocities committed by Russian troops. Now, when circumstances call for genuine action in the Balkans, Russia wants to deter any progress and is calling for peace talks despite massive evidence of the Bosnian Serbs' failure to keep their promises. NITIN UMAPATHI Bangalore, India...