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While Clinton will explain the Partnership for Peace as a sop to the likes of Poland and Hungary, he will also have to advise Yeltsin against behaving too aggressively with his neighbors, especially the former Soviet republics Moscow calls "the near abroad." Russia has intervened militarily in Moldova, Georgia and Tajikistan, and is now shaking a fist at Lithuania. If Clinton is to placate Warsaw and Budapest on NATO membership, Yeltsin will have to offer reassurance to Central Europe by dissociating his government more vigorously from resurgent Russian nationalism...
...convince Moscow of this without much of a carrot. He will not be carrying a new aid package to Moscow, and does not intend to ask Congress for more than the $2.5 billion it voted last year. U.S. policy planning has focused on what the President should say to Yeltsin about the reform of Russia's economy. Reading Zhirinovsky's success at the polls last month as essentially a protest vote, Ambassador at Large Strobe Talbott initially said the Russians needed "less shock and more therapy" and the U.S. was "refining, focusing and intensifying" its efforts to support reform. Trying...
...Boris Yeltsin's government narrowly averted the embarrassment of a newspaper strike, which would have blacked out coverage of the summit. Angered by a directive that could raise the cost of paper and printing services as much as 600%, the editors of some of Moscow's most influential publications accused the government of trying to bankrupt the media and called for a strike during summit week. Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin summoned the rebellious journalists to his new office to remind them that they had championed the very market reforms that were pushing them into the red. They relented when Chernomyrdin...
...parliament is supposed to meet. With a Russian Orthodox bishop in attendance to offer his blessings and perhaps exorcise the ghosts of the past, Chernomyrdin hastily occupied a renovated office suite last week at the White House, the former parliament building damaged last October when armed forces loyal to Yeltsin put down a revolt of hard-line deputies. The move was intended to forestall any claims on the space by the new Federal Assembly, whose members are unhappy over a Kremlin proposal to house the two chambers in separate buildings until a new complex can be built on an abandoned...
This can be seen, for example, in the way Western observers keep moving the goalposts for that hero of democracy, Boris Yeltsin. Democracy lovers have been remarkably understanding as Yeltsin has shut down newspapers, produced a constitution out of his hip pocket that makes him virtual czar, forbidden candidates in the recent election to criticize his constitution on television, put off for years his own need to run for re-election and so on. This was all justified as an "interim" necessity in order to establish Russia on a democratic course. But if Yeltsin continues to govern in a style...