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...specific impetus behind the speech was Russian President Boris Yeltsin's attempt last week to disband the Russian Congress...
Domrin, a member of the Supreme Soviet for the last three years, attempted to debunk the idea that President Yeltsin and his government stood for democratic reform in a battle against a reactionary Parliament. "I do not believe the assumptions of this dilemma are totally true," Domrin said...
Domrin said the Congress was composed of three distinct factions. Although Communists and Yeltsin supporters are present in the Congress, Domrin said approximately 40 percent of the body had political attitudes somewhere between the two groups...
...charges and countercharges of corruption swept through the Russian government, President Boris Yeltsin suspended his Vice President and archrival, Alexander Rutskoi. He also temporarily dismissed First Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Shumeiko, a powerful supporter of Yeltsin's economic reforms, at his own request so Shumeiko could defend himself against corruption charges...
...RUSSIAN PRESIDENT BORIS YELTSIN laid a wreath of flowers at a commemoration site to apologize for the massacre of 15,000 Polish army officers by Soviet forces in Katyn Forest during World...