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...prospects for Russian democracy: I still believe it is going the way it should. Real democracy cannot be born without serious struggle. How can a viable democracy be created in a militarist country overnight? Yeltsin is trying to form democratic institutions by using a certain kind of authoritarianism. This is necessary in a transitional period...
Russian President Boris Yeltsin was scheduled to meet with the summiteers on Sunday, but the G-7 leaders do not yet want to convert the group into the G-8; Russia has a long way to go before it turns its former command economy into enough of a market economy to join the club. The seven would not put up any more of their own money for aid to Moscow, either. But they were amenable to an arrangement that would permit Russia to borrow some additional billions from the International Monetary Fund...
...even employ large fans to blow radioactive waste across Russia and into the Baltic states. Such threats had become trademark Zhirinovsky moves, ignored by many. But since last December when Zhirinovsky's Liberal Democratic Party captured 25% of the vote in the party preference poll, Russian liberals and pro-Yeltsin Westerners have taken notice...
...ascendance has not been without growing pains. In the past few months, discord has broken out in the ranks of his party and a number of dissidents have pulled away. Still, the L.D.P. has mustered impressive leverage in parliament. Moreover, as Yeltsin's power base grows shakier, Zhirinovsky's brand of shoot-from-the-hip populism has enabled him to bully his way into the small group of candidates vying to be the next President of Russia. "There is a great danger that someone like Zhirinovsky could take over," says Yuli Guzman, a parliamentary Deputy from the democratic Russia...
With or without KGB's help, the L.D.P. quickly proved it could stand on its own. Last December the party shocked Yeltsin's reformers by taking 64 seats in the parliamentary elections. Since then, Zhirinovsky has cemented his control over the organization. In April, at the L.D.P.'s Fifth Party Congress, the 340 Deputies unanimously voted to give him absolute power. They also extended his tenure as party chairman until the year 2004 and nominated him as their candidate in the country's next presidential elections. Evidence of a Zhirinovsky personality cult cropped up at the congress. A placard proclaimed...