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...become a rising favorite among nationalists and the military. In a recent survey, some 70% of officers said they would prefer Lebed as Defense Minister instead of Pavel Grachev, who has botched the Chechen war and faces accusations of corruption. Lebed also appeals to centrists who detest both Yeltsin and ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky. If he could count on the support of all these groups, Lebed would make a very strong candidate in the presidential election scheduled for June...
With their last truce in shambles and Russian shells falling again, Chechen rebels promised a "bloodbath" to avenge Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's mass deportation of their people exactly 50 years ago. In Moscow, President Boris Yeltsin marked Russia's Red Army Day by admitting his troops were getting "wobbly," but he denied that they have committed atrocities in Chechnya. Yeltsin himself looks as wobby as ever: New polls say two-thirds of Russians think he should not run for president in 1996, and more than half would like him to resign...
Sobchak is a prominent Russian politician whowas offered the vice presidency by Yeltsin butdeclined...
...Boris Yeltsin knows that miners' strikes in 1989 and 1991 loosened Mikhail Gorbachev's grip on the presidency. So when half a million miners staged a one-day walkout last week to protest nonpayment of wages, Yeltsin scrambled to pledge $500 million for the industry...
...Chechen debacle aside, things are not going well in the economy. Foreign investors are spooked by signs that the government is backsliding on economic reform. First there was Vladimir Polevanov, the ex-apparatchik named by Yeltsin to manage privatization, who instead announced a return to state ownership. Yeltsin fired him, but Polevanov's views are held by others. ``He wasn't a lonely voice out there,'' cautions a Western official...