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...Yeltsin that lurking danger is a challenge he must face now. To do it, he is launching what some are calling, without irony, a period of authoritarian democracy. He will rule by decree -- at least until elections are held -- to try to get his country back on track toward economic and political reform. To accomplish this, he must do nothing less than prepare for elections, revitalize the stalled economy, pacify a politicized military and demonstrate that he heads a functioning government. "Yeltsin must get down to governing quickly," says Peter Frank, an expert on Russia at Essex University, England...
Bill Clinton, like other Western leaders, fully backed Yeltsin's use of force, saying the Russian President had "no other choice than to try to restore order." Still, many in the West were worried that Yeltsin might choose to emphasize the authoritarian part of his new activism at the expense of the democracy. Their concern was eased when Yeltsin declared on television last week that parliamentary elections would be held as scheduled on Dec. 12. Now Western attention will focus on how free and fair they...
...even if they are possible. A raft of procedural and substantive questions surrounds those elections (see box). Yeltsin suspended the Communist Party last week, and one of his most senior aides, Sergei Filatov, said the Party should be banned from the elctions. Yeltsin also dissolved city government and called on all regional soviets, the legislative councils subordinate to the Supreme Soviet, to resign so new local governments can be elected in December...
...clear about what kinds of local government organs may replace the hundreds of soviets, and in only two months Russians are to vote for members of a parliament that has not been established or finally defined. Last May, Yeltsin introduced the draft of a new constitution providing for a strong presidential system, a federal structure and a two-house parliament. But like so many other reforms in Russia, it was blocked by the old legislature, which had no incentive to put itself out of work...
...their natural resources, like oil, gold and diamonds, and want to maintain control of them and share in the profits from sales. And these localities fret that they pay ever higher taxes to Moscow and receive fewer services in return. Some provincial Russians are simply anti-Moscow or anti-Yeltsin...