Word: yeltsin
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...cold war. The U.S. military budget keeps growing, along with Washington's combat strength. We monitor this closely. Only naive people who do not know Russia might believe that our military will accept the position of second best in the world. We seek to be equal to the strongest. Yeltsin has denied us our most precious professional feeling: a sense of pride in our own might. The military will never forgive him for that...
...doing to Russia's internal reforms and its international reputation. Mothers of boys at the front staged demonstrations in Moscow and Vladivostok; on Friday mothers in Yekaterinburg lay down in front of army vehicles transporting their sons to Chechnya. Russians everywhere spoke out angrily against the war. "Yeltsin has betrayed our democracy," declared former dissident Gleb Yakunin, a liberal member of parliament. Even when Chechnya's presidential palace is in Russian hands, President Boris Yeltsin will not have won the war or restored his own political prestige...
Already the implications are being felt as far away as Washington. With Republicans in charge on Capitol Hill, top officials know that further reversals might inspire the G.O.P. to unleash a "Who Lost Russia?" debate. They wonder if the fond hopes the U.S. expressed for democracy, reform and Yeltsin might be going up in Grozny's smoke. The officials have conducted several secret reviews of their Russia policy since last spring, asking if Yeltsin would survive and whether the U.S. was too close to him. When Secretary of State Warren Christopher meets Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev in Geneva this week...
...Administration is reluctant to dwell on the fact because it believes U.S. interests still lie in helping Yeltsin out of the mess, not in righteous preaching against it. As Christopher explained it last week, U.S. policy is based on two points: Russia has a right to defend its territory against insurrection and secession, and Russia must live up to its agreements to respect human rights. The idea is to reconcile the two points through "a peaceful solution." While until now the Administration has been reluctant to talk about human rights in public, officials say they have repeatedly raised the issue...
...verge of falling last week, Chechen fighters and thousands of refugees from the capital trekked south into redoubts in the Caucasus Mountains. If the conflict descends into guerrilla warfare, it may move off the world's front pages, but it will continue to drain Moscow's resources and weaken Yeltsin -- if, of course, he survives in power...