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President Clinton announced that he will visit Moscow on May 9 to join Russia's celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the Allies' World War II victory over Nazi Germany. Clinton will also meet with Russian President Boris Yeltsin...
...first to call when SKG was announced. Karma came into it too. It happened that at a White House dinner in October, when the three moguls sealed their agreement to become the Dream team, Iger was sitting on one side of Spielberg, Boris Yeltsin on the other (Yeltsin is one of the few international players who has not been rumored as a potential DreamWorks partner). It was then that Iger, who had quarreled with Spielberg over an Amblin TV project on the Civil War, patched things...
...eyes of many Muscovites, Yeltsin seemed to be engaged less in controlling crime than in preparing the ground for his campaign for the 1996 presidential elections. Given the fact that little had been done until now to put teeth in a federal crime-busting program, Yeltsin's sudden burst of energy struck many as an attempt to bolster the President's image...
...purge touched off an unseemly political tug-of-war between the Kremlin and Moscow's city hall. Sergei Gerasimov, the prosecutor appointed to take Ponomaryov's place, quickly resigned. In Parliament Yeltsin's opponents pushed through a lopsided vote of no confidence in Interior Minister Victor Yerin, who is in effect the national chief of police. Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, once a strong Yeltsin ally, fumed that only "criminals and bandits" would be in favor of firing senior police officials. Then he threatened to resign...
...Kremlin is beginning to respond to the growing get-tough mood. Two weeks ago, Yeltsin spoke favorably of methods used in Uzbekistan, where he claimed the government grabbed members of six criminal gangs and shot them. He may not be considering measures quite that harsh. But if it is true that Yeltsin is surrounded by officials more hard-line than he is, some of them may be wishing they could take a page from the Uzbek crime-busting book...