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...politic to negotiate a deal with the new U.N. ground commander, British Lieut. General Sir Michael Rose, the prospect of NATO action moved an anxious Russia -- caught between loyalty to fellow Orthodox Slavs and its interests in cooperating with the West -- to intervene. Air strikes would have forced Boris Yeltsin to risk the wrath of Russian nationalists or to condemn the attacks and alienate international friends. So Churkin paid his visit to Pale, carrying a face-saving plan from Yeltsin...
...have to; they well knew. Air strikes against the Serbs could severely strain relations between the NATO powers and Russia, many of whose citizens empathize with the Serbs as fellow Slavs and Orthodox Christians. If the ultimatum had to be voted on in the U.N. Security Council, Boris Yeltsin's government would almost certainly veto it, if only to respond to public anger fanned by nationalists like Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who was in full cry last week. NATO finessed that by insisting that its ultimatum is justified under previous Security Council resolutions. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros- Ghali, who has resisted...
When Boris Yeltsin's 63rd birthday rolled around last Tuesday, a reporter was unable to resist asking Victor Chernomyrdin whether he had sprung any special surprises on his boss. "We presented him with a huge bouquet of flowers," Chernomyrdin solemnly intoned. "We doubt if he received a bigger one from anyone else. We knew we couldn't allow this. Ours was the best...
...many Russians, Victor Chernomyrdin, 55, is the only politician besides Yeltsin with the toughness, stability and integrity of character needed to pull the post-Soviet economy out of its tailspin. To Moscow's radical democrats, however, he personifies what former Finance Minister Boris Fyodorov calls the "lifeless and illiterate state-planning ideology of the red managers." To the West, Chernomyrdin appears little better than a dark horseman of Russia's impending apocalypse -- a flashback to Brezhnevite stagnation whose disdain for the most basic prescriptions of capitalism threatens to destroy reform...
...RUSSIA: Yeltsin's Reform Waltz...