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Yeltsin suspects his supporters' Constitutional Court challenge to this requirement will not succeed, because the Chief Justice, Valeri Zorkin, has joined forces with the parliamentary camp in earlier struggles. If his suspicion is correct, he will issue a decree dismissing the new majority provision as "a crude violation of the constitution and the law on referendums." In other words, if he gains the approval of a simple majority of those who vote, he will raise his own hand as the winner. Once that is done, he says, he intends to be "more decisive" in pursuing a "whole package" of initiatives...
...aggressive leader, Ruslan Khasbulatov, will be mounting an attack of their own. When Yeltsin does not come up with the required 53 million votes, they may demand his resignation or try again to vote him out of office, as they almost did last month. The Constitutional Court's Zorkin could rule that the President should resign in favor of the Vice President, Alexander Rutskoi, another anti-Yeltsinite...
...time the third session of the Congress in three months gathered in the Grand Kremlin Palace on Friday, the impeachment drive seemed to be losing its momentum. Although the Kremlin rang with bitter invective, the hard-liners did not have the votes to depose Yeltsin. Zorkin, the Chief Justice who had set the impeachment bandwagon in motion, instead offered a 10-point plan for national reconciliation similar to Yeltsin's own program, including a referendum on a new constitution and a law abolishing the Congress in favor of a bicameral parliament...
...weary, rambling speech Saturday afternoon, Yeltsin suggested that in a week of compromise talks with Khasbulatov, Zorkin and Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, he could produce an agreement that might end the power struggle. The President's face looked puffy, and he paused often, setting off mutters among his foes that he was drunk. Maria Sorokina, a Deputy from Lipetsk, her voice almost breaking, went to the podium to say she had been a Yeltsin loyalist and had worked for his election in 1991. No longer, she said. With heavy sighs, referring to the President's speech, she asked, "How long...
...churned out one pro-Yeltsin story after another -- and no one much cared if they were highly exaggerated or totally wrong. How turncoat Vice President Alexander Rutskoi pinched a copy of Yeltsin's unfinished decree on "special rule" and gave it to the opposition. How Constitutional Court chairman Valeri Zorkin brazenly handed the grieving Yeltsin a copy of the court's negative verdict at his mother's funeral...