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...Moscow's historic Vagankovskoye Cemetery and place flowers beside the crepe-trimmed portrait of the TV journalist gunned down in the stairwell of his apartment building, they were sending Russia's leaders a powerful message. This callous murder, like no other, has demonstrated to every citizen that President Boris Yeltsin and the men in the Kremlin are facing forces beyond their control. If a prominent personality like Listyev cannot be protected from violence, who is safe in Russia, and who really runs the country...
...Russians are demanding to know what Yeltsin's government is going to do about it; a failure to bring crime under control could cost not only the President his job but also Russia its whole experiment with democracy. The unremitting violence and growing loss of confidence could produce sudden political swings, toward a dictatorial crackdown on civil liberties or away from Yeltsin's government...
...executive director. "But most people came as a protest against the helplessness and inaction of the government in dealing with crime." Yakovlev, one of the architects of the reforms put in place by Mikhail Gorbachev, says he too is "amazed" at the government's lethargy. When he talks with Yeltsin about it, "he agrees with me, but nothing gets done...
Faced with a mushrooming crisis, Yeltsin last week called for a new effort to stem crime. Turning to the well-tested tactic of seeking a scapegoat, he fired Moscow police chief Vladimir Pankratov and city chief prosecutor Gennadi Ponomaryov for failing to "provide proper organization" to deal with "grave crimes." He chaired a meeting of the Security Council, which issued a stern warning: the continued activities of organized crime were "discrediting state powers" and "threatening the security of Russia...
...NATO must expand to the east, choosing its allies from the most stable of the new democracies. While Yeltsin may disagree, the U.S. should assure him, "It's nothing personal...