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...50th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany. Clinton called Yeltsin's order a welcome first step but he remains concerned about Russia's massive use of force to keep Chechnyan territory. Will Yeltsin have a change of heart? There has been no indication yet, butTIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovichsays "the government wants to create a good mood for the Clinton visit," but their actions so far seem to add up to little more than a modern day "Potemkin Village...
...Duma, the lower body of the Russian Parliament, voted nearly unanimously (286-1) to prohibit the use of the army except in case of foreign invasion, and called for the government to forge animmediate ceasefire in Chechnya"without any preconditions."TIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovichsays that the move actually will have very little effect on government policy. "It's a purely symbolic act," he says. "But it's a moral blow to theprestige of Yeltsin. In practical terms, if the president doesn't like it he can just dissolve the parliament...
...about 2,000 workers picketed the government headquarters, calling forBoris Yeltsin's resignation. Although the trade unions say thegovernment owes $1.14 billion in back wages, Labor Minister Gennady Melikyan blames local administrators for the crisis, saying the federal government has paid its debts to state-funded organizations.TIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovichsays Melikyan has a point, saying "Up to a point, that's true, lots of places are controlled by gangsters," who take large cuts of money before it ever reaches the workers...
...BOSTON--Yuri Khmylev scored on a Buffalo power play midway through the first period and Boston's Cam Neely tied it in the second period yesterday night as the Sabres extended their unbeaten streak to five games in a 1-1 tie with the Bruins...
...like none of his past adventures. Instead of preparing for launch on the balmy shores of Cape Canaveral, the Florida native faced the 18[degrees]F chill of the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. When he chatted with crew mates, he spoke the language not of Neil Armstrong but of Yuri Gagarin. And when he tried to follow the American astronauts' ritual of eating a piece of cake before launch, the Russian flight doctors said nyet. Instead, Thagard and his fellow crew members, cosmonauts Vladimir Dezhurov and Gennady Strekalov, carried out a Russian tradition: they urinated on the tires...