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These actions epitomize the sense of insecurity that Russia feels in the Western-dominated post Cold War world. Russia is frightened, almost mortally terrified. On a recent trip to China, Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin responded to President Clinton's criticism of the war in Chechnya by touting the power of Russia's nuclear arsenal. To Dartboard, it brought to mind our own experience as a scared teenager. When we felt threatened, we too ran off to find our six foot, 250-pound football-playing buddy to back...
...parliamentary elections only five days away, success in Chechnya has fueled the unlikely rise of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to the pinnacle of political popularity. But he won't want this war dragging on into next summer, when he goes to the polls in the hope of succeeding President Yeltsin...
...sense of flashback to the bad old days of the Cold War was underscored by President Boris Yeltsin's warning Thursday that President Clinton, in criticizing Russia's conduct in Chechnya, "must have forgotten for a moment what Russia is - it has a full arsenal of nuclear weapons." And in the ultimate d?j? vu, the Russian leader's remarks came during a visit to Beijing in order to drum up support in the face of Western pressure over Chechnya. Post-communist Russia's decline and NATO's bombing campaign over Kosovo earlier this year have cemented a fiercely anti-Western...
...BORIS YELTSIN Ill again, and Chechnya's looking like Afghanistan. So despised he could seek Reform Party...
...relationship with the Russian people has become our relationship with Yeltsin," he said...