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...Boris Yeltsin's liver b) His own hairline c) Any hope that Russia will one day be economically sound d) The old Soviet national anthem...
...Boris Yeltsin always survived impeachment votes in a parliament heavily stacked against him for one simple reason - the legislators wanted to keep their jobs, and ousting him would have meant new elections. Now Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Barak may have benefited from a similar effect. His most dangerous challenger, Benjamin Netanyahu, bowed out of the February election Monday, citing the legislature's refusal to vote for a full new election. Instead, the Knesset voted on a special "Bibi Bill" to allow any citizen to run in February's poll, which is only for the post of prime minister...
...there's another reason: Putin is trying to build a new foreign policy. Once the Soviet Union collapsed, Boris Yeltsin's Russia tried to give up the old Soviet foreign policy and adopt positions more accommodating to the West, and more in line with the thinking of democratic countries. But there was a strong conservative backlash against that policy, particularly from within the security and intelligence establishment, which insisted that Russian national interests were being sold out. Eventually, Boris Yeltsin was forced to succumb to this pressure, and appoint Yevgeny Primakov as his foreign minister, straight from Primakov's position...
...Yeltsin remained more accommodating to the West than Putin has been...
...Yeltsin still tried to orient Russian foreign policy toward what we may call normal values. Still, there was a shift. In Yugoslavia, for example, Moscow supported Milosevic. Foreign policy began pursuing what these hard-liners call Russian national interests, but which may rather be called the interests of those conservative hard-line circles. Once Putin became president, the idea of a foreign policy change was more openly and publicly expressed. Putin has indicated that he's going to oppose the U.S. whenever possible. He's behaving like old the Soviet leaders by trying to drive a wedge in the Western...