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...American response has varied from supportive to only mildly reproachful. What worries the administration is that a strong condemnation of Russia's transgressions will further weaken the faltering position of Boris Yeltsin...
...this may be the case. Yeltsin's recent statements before his Security Council suggest he has already lost control of his army, while his domestic position sinks with each bloody day of the quagmire...
Russian President Boris Yeltsin reinvented the credibility gap for the '90s with his promises not to bomb civilians in Chechnya
Doubts swirl around Boris Yeltsin as Chechen fighting goes...
...unreformed communists and neofascists in Russia, President Boris + Yeltsin is a "drunken swine" who should be tested for dipsomania. That sneering dismissal is too crude for the more mainstream politicians. They argue instead that he is isolated in the Kremlin, is badly misinformed and is falling under the sway of a "war party" of military and security officials. Other critics go further, speculating that Yeltsin is scheming to declare a state of emergency, cancel the 1996 presidential elections and rule by decree...