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...exceeded only by the confusion that surrounds the array of parties elbowing one another for a place at the table. On the same day voters choose their new representatives, they will also pass judgment on a draft constitution that dramatically strengthens the power of the President and opens Boris Yeltsin to the charge that he is less interested in building democracy than in consolidating his own power...
...lower house, the Duma, and the 176 delegates of its upper chamber will coordinate with the executive. No one even knows where the Duma will meet, although one proposed site, on the outskirts of Moscow 10 miles from the Kremlin, suggests the importance the new parliament will command in Yeltsin's estimation...
...Yeltsin Bends...
Russian President Boris Yeltsin said the presidential election he promised for June 12 is still on despite his "personal views" that it should be postponed. Yeltsin also announced a broad new approach to combatting Russia's runaway crime problem. The measures include expanded police powers to search passengers and cargo...
President Clinton's administration has had some very public failures in foreign policy. Yet they count Russia as a success. They have been on Yeltsin's side, and Yeltsin has prevailed. The task now is to ensure that more than Yeltsin survives, that some type of democracy survives with...