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...Roman emperor would force the king he had humiliated to parade, in chains, before the victors. In early October, the same kind of spectacle took place in Moscow. The humbled losers were not the defeated defenders of the White House, who capitulated with their hands over their heads. Boris Yeltsin's victims were instead the smiling leaders of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, who appeared before President Boris Yeltsin at the Kremlin to announce they would join the Commonwealth of the Independent States. The architect of this "class reunion," Defense Minister Grachev, was sitting next to Yeltsin. He, too, was smiling...
...hand-wringing that accompanied Boris Yeltsin's crushing of the uprising in Moscow last month deflected attention from an issue that should keep U.S. policy makers awake at nights: Russia's attempt to resurrect an exclusive sphere of influence across the former Soviet Union. Like so many dominoes, the former Soviet republics are succumbing to Moscow's reassertion of imperial prerogatives. The process is now hurtling toward its logical conclusion with Moscow's sights set on Ukraine--52 million people strategically situated in the heart of Central Europe...
President Yeltsin had many differences with his former Vice President, Aleksandr Rutskoi. But a conviction that Russia should exercise hegemony over its former empire was not one of them. True, the two men had vastly opposing strategies. Rutskoi wanted to challenge the West by asserting Russia's imperium through direct military confrontation. He would have wiped out all the vestiges of the new states' independence and reestablished the Soviet Union's borders...
...contrast, Yeltsin has sought to safeguard Russia's relations with the West by more subtle muscle-flexing. Economic blackmail and "rouge" army units have been his weapons to coerce the former republics into the Moscowdominated Commonwealth of Independent States. He seems willing to allow Russia's neighbors to retain the trappings of sovereignty, provided Moscow has the final say on important policy questions...
...Sally Donnelly, who had recently arrived from Los Angeles to begin a tour of duty in Moscow, was in the midst of a leisurely get-acquainted drive around the capital when she and reporter Ann Simmons found themselves snarled in a riot-caused traffic jam. As Donnelly watched anti-Yeltsin rebels mix Molotov cocktails, she says, she was momentarily reminded of last year's upheaval in Los Angeles, which she covered...