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...gave bear stroking a try. It did not work. Despite our extraordinary deference to Russian national feelings, the antireform and anti-Western parties did exceptionally well in free elections. Yeltsin is accommodating to reality. Time for us to follow suit...
...Yeltsin still represents as moderate a government as Russia is going to produce. But that highlights all the more clearly the limits of Russian moderation. It would be foolish, therefore, to continue a purely Russocentric policy that bets the house on the hope that with enough Western coaxing and acquiescence, Russia will turn into a Western democracy, a Cyrillic England. It is far more prudent for the West to demonstrate some firmness, to show we will respect Russia's national interests but not its imperial impulses...
...current unpleasantness is neither Yeltsin's fault nor Clinton's. But it is a fact. The free ride given Russia, based on hopes for a kind of Russia that...
...certainty is that such numbers move on a daily basis. Clinton's improved grade for foreign policy rests partly upon a European trip marked by still-to- be-honored pledges by Ukraine to give up its nuclear weapons and by Boris Yeltsin to continue reform. A face-off with North Korea or a crack-up in Russia could renew doubts about his capabilities abroad...
That is the equivalent of what Russia is going through, and it would spell political backlash -- if not worse -- in any language. When Bill Clinton was in Moscow two weeks ago, Boris Yeltsin assured him that free-market reforms would continue in spite of the December elections that boosted extreme nationalists and old communists into parliament as the dominant opposition. But Air Force One was hardly airborne before the Russian government started stepping back from its pledges...