Word: yeltsin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...McCain said he would push to cut off funding from the International Monetary Fund to Russia if the former communist nation does not relent in its military campaign in Chechnya, calling Russian President Boris Yeltsin a "decrepit president...
When, and if, Yeltsin's presidency ever ends, the transition will be one of the first landmark events of the next century. There is a strong chance that the communists may regain power; Yeltsin's approval rating is unbelievably low, hitting two percent at one point over the past year...
...public enthusiasm for the war in Chechnya has propelled neophyte prime minister Vladimir Putin into a commanding lead in the presidential stakes, and made his parliamentary allies in the Unity alliance the strongest contenders for second place, with a predicted 12 to 15 percent. Meanwhile, the media owned by Yeltsin backer Boris Berezovsky has ground away at Fatherland-All Russia's lead with a relentless barrage of attacks - even accusing Luzhkov of involvement in the murder of an American businessman in 1996 - and the party is now expected to run third with somewhere between 9 and 12 percent. Nationalist firebrand...
...Overall, the election is likely to be good news for both Yeltsin and his appointed successor, Putin. A strong showing by Unity, as well as the pro-Kremlin Union of Right-Wing Forces headed by former prime minister Sergei Kiriyenko, will create a solid pro-Kremlin bloc in the traditionally anti-Kremlin legislature. That's an effect primarily of the Chechnya war, although it also illustrates that Russian politics is something of a funhouse mirror to multiparty democracy. Russia's communist-era nomenklaturacontinue to compete for power among themselves in an ever-shifting series of hidden transactions, in which party...
...When Yeltsin named Putin as his successor in August, the former KGB officer had a popularity rating of less than 1 percent. Now, Russian pollsters are saying, he's a shoo-in for next year's presidential election. But the Chechnya war that propelled him to the top could also drag him down. Russian public support for the campaign is premised on the fact of Russia's suffering minimal casualties. A videotape to back Western news reports of more than 100 Russian soldiers lying in the wreckage of a tank column ambushed in Grozny could seriously affect his poll ratings...