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...Kremlin. President Yeltsin and Mayor Yuri Luzhkov blamed the attack on terrorists, closed the main roads leading out of Moscow, and flooded the city with police. "Luzhkov thinks that Chechens or criminals opposed to the new anti-crime policy are responsible," says TIME's Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich, who doubts the separatist guerrillas are behind the attacks. "If the Chechens set the bombs, they would have claimed responsibility by now. They understand that the political fallout from the attacks are more important than the attacks themselves. People are so stunned, and stupefied by the attacks that they have not reacted...
...Russia, both sides are cozying up to surprise third place finisher Alexander Lebed. After taking a strong 15 percent of the vote in Sunday's election, the retired general finds himself an important player in the run-off election. "Lebed entered the race late," says TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich. "But he has emerged as a national political leader and has staked a serious claim on the Russian political agenda." After a closed door meeting between the two men Monday, rumors abounded about what Yeltsin might offer Lebed to deliver the vote. "Yeltsin might create a position for Lebed where...
...Michael Kramer and Yuri Zarakhovich...
...impressed with how willing the people were to talk openly about the issues and the candidates," says TIME's chief political correspondent, MICHAEL KRAMER. For two weeks, Kramer and veteran Moscow reporter YURI ZARAKHOVICH followed Yeltsin around the country while Washington correspondent JAMES CARNEY, returning to his old posting in Russia, tracked Zyuganov. Back in Moscow, correspondent SALLY DONNELLY and stringer CONSTANCE RICHARDS filed background reports, picture editor MARK RYKOFF directed a team of 10 photographers and Polish journalist RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI, a longtime Soviet watcher, returned to a much changed Moscow to take the city's pulse. Coordinating operations...
...surgeon turned candidate Svyatoslav Fyodorov met with Yeltsin and to propose a national unity government with representatives from all the parties. Yeltsin said he would consider the plan, while Valentin Kuptsov, Communist Party campaign organizer, called the idea quite reasonable. "People are scared of a civil war," adds Zarakhovich. "That is the reason for all this talk of coalitions and national unity governments. No matter who wins, Yeltsin or Zyuganov, the loser will continue to oppose them, and in Russia, where the legal structures are not as solid as those in the United States, a civil war is possible." Chris...