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Tuesday, 6:10 p.m., Belgrade. Fresh from a chat with Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister--in town to make sure Milosevic sticks to a promise he gave Boris Yeltsin to resume talks with Rugova--Holbrooke arrives at Milosevic's presidential palace. The two tuck into a four-hour dinner of...
Boris Yeltsin's income jumped sevenfold, from less than $45,000 to $325,000, last year. The presidential windfall became public after Rossiiskaya Gazeta, the state paper of record, published a list of officials' earnings. This has been an annual event (as have citizens' disbelieving snickers) since last spring, when...
BELGRADE: Slobodan Milosevic didn't survive this long through brute force alone: After yesterday's NATO fly-by to encourage the Serb leader to end his aggression in Kosovo, Milosevic today emerged from a meeting with Boris Yeltsin talking compromise. Although he gave no specific response to NATO demands, he...
The next step won't come until after President Boris Yeltsin's Thursday meeting with Milosevic, where he'll try and persuade Russia's traditional ally to back down. "The U.S. believes it has nothing to lose by giving Yeltsin's initiative a chance," says Fischer, "but they're not...
The central bank's reserves have dwindled to about $14 billion, and the Kremlin's great fear is that it will have to devalue the ruble. That would cruelly increase prices for ordinary Russian citizens, cause social and political upheaval and dash Yeltsin's hopes for his legacy as a...