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...court's Chief Justice Valeri Zorkin did not use the word impichment in his advisory opinion, but that did not slow down Khasbulatov. "It's absolutely clear," he insisted, "that there are grounds for initiating the impeachment process." Members of the parliament weren't all as sure. Khasbulatov settled the debate by ramming through a summons to the parliament's parent body, the 1,033-member Congress of People's Deputies, to meet on Friday to consider removing Yeltsin from office...
...week, many Russians saw an ominous parallel. Recalling Mikhail Gorbachev's futile struggle to preserve the motley amalgam of nations forged into the Soviet Union, they feared that their own Russian Federation might be heading for disintegration. "We are not only on the brink of a crisis," said Valeri Zorkin, chairman of the Constitutional Court, "but on the edge of an abyss...
Challenges to Democracy in Russia--paneldiscussion with Valery Zorkin, chairman,Constitutional Court, Russian Federation; MichaelSandel, Professor of Government; and GrahamAllison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government,and director, Strengthening DemocraticInstitutions Project, Kennedy School ofGovernment, Arco Forum...
Lloyd and Fisher replaced scheduled speakers Vladimir Lukin, chair of the foreign affairs committee of the Russian Supreme Soviet, and Valentin Zorkin, head of the Russian constitutional court...
Lukin and Zorkin had traveled to New York City to meet with Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin, according to Dillon Professor of Government Graham T. Allison '62, who moderated the forum...