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...written the meeting off as pro forma. "The very fact that the President is coming for the 50th anniversary of our common victory (V-E Day) is eloquent proof of the profound changes that have taken place in Russian-American relations in a relatively short time -- just four years," Yeltsin said. "Having done away with confrontation, we have given our people a chance to live for the first time without fear of the threat of a nuclear war." Asked about thewar on Chechnya-- which he has unilaterally suspended till the summit's end -- the Russian leader was firm: "You should...
President Clinton called Russian President Boris Yeltsin to urge him tomake the cease-fire in Chechnya permanent. Yeltsin had ordered a halt in fighting until after Clinton's visit to Moscow to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany. Clinton called Yeltsin's order a welcome first step but he remains concerned about Russia's massive use of force to keep Chechnyan territory. Will Yeltsin have a change of heart? There has been no indication yet, butTIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovichsays "the government wants to create a good mood for the Clinton visit," but their actions...
...political movementto combat what they see as political extremism that has hobbled Western-style reforms. "Russia has had enough revolutions," Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin said today in Moscow. "Russia is our home and we must make every effort to ensure stability and restore order in it." The move underscores Yeltsin's shift away from the liberal forces that brought him to power, and at the same time snubs both pro- and anti-Western extremists who have dominated the Russian parliament for two years...
...invasion, and called for the government to forge animmediate ceasefire in Chechnya"without any preconditions."TIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovichsays that the move actually will have very little effect on government policy. "It's a purely symbolic act," he says. "But it's a moral blow to theprestige of Yeltsin. In practical terms, if the president doesn't like it he can just dissolve the parliament...
Hundreds of thousands of Russian workers, from teachers and hospital employees to miners and factory laborers, are on strike. Many haven't been paid in over two years. In Moscow, about 2,000 workers picketed the government headquarters, calling forBoris Yeltsin's resignation. Although the trade unions say thegovernment owes $1.14 billion in back wages, Labor Minister Gennady Melikyan blames local administrators for the crisis, saying the federal government has paid its debts to state-funded organizations.TIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovichsays Melikyan has a point, saying "Up to a point, that's true, lots of places are controlled by gangsters...