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...figure is mentioned more often as the man with whom Yeltsin must compromise than Arkadi Volsky. He is not the most extreme opponent, but he is the most powerful. A former Communist Party apparatchik and adviser to each of the past three Soviet leaders, Volsky, 60, has the assured air of a man who has walked the corridors of the Kremlin many times. Holding only a nominal party office at the time of the August 1991 coup, he escaped the guilt by association that taints other former high party officials. Many observers now consider him a future Prime Minister...
...front has no coherent program -- except to undo what Yeltsin has done -- only skill at demagoguery. Nationalists like Nikolai Lysenko shift the blame to old enemies: "The U.S. planned and engineered the collapse of the Soviet Union." Front leaders call on the citizenry to "rise in defense of the Russian state" and force the President out. "Their strategy," says a U.S. official, "is to invoke slogans in an attempt to excite the baser political instincts." But in championing causes like the troubles of Russian nationals in the other republics, front leaders have potent emotional issues with which to stir...
...forces of opposition will test their strength during this week's session of the Congress of People's Deputies. Yeltsin has signaled he will fight for his government at the Congress, but his success could depend on what alliances are formed between warring political factions and how strong the extremists really prove to be. In the end, the balance of power between the President at one end and the front at the other may be decided by the man in the middle -- Volsky. If neither Yeltsin nor Volsky can achieve some kind of consensus, the Congress could embolden the most...
...country that lacks democratic institutions to ensure the future of reforms, the President so dominates the political landscape that as Yeltsin goes, so goes the nation...
...such coherence or vision applies to the new Russian economy. Since Boris Yeltsin began shock treatment last January, the result has been a bundle of contradictions. In the industrial city of Rostov, the mammoth Rostselmash factory still makes grain harvesters that no one wants. The clunkers lose up to 15% of the grain as they pound rich topsoil into brick-hard earth. Yet Yeltsin visited the plant last summer and personally guaranteed tens of millions of rubles in state credits to keep the communist relic afloat...