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...tough talk? Analysts see three explanations: Yeltsin, whose administration brokered the November deal that brought UNSCOM inspectors back to Iraq, could be frustrated by his envoys' lack of success this time. Then there's the Duma, which adopted a strongly-worded pro-Iraq resolution Wednesday. Finally, the Russian president has form for such bluff and bluster. Remember his promise to slash Russia's nuclear forces by a third, later dismissed as "tiredness"? Still, in the slide toward crisis, this is one threat Clinton can't afford to ignore...
...Yeltsin remains the pivotal figure in Russian politics. He rules by arbitrating among competing factions in his own administration and by intimidating the opposition-controlled Duma when necessary. When ill health prevents him from performing these functions, the country stalls in neutral...
Burke-White has traveled the world over the last year to secure support for the event from members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the Russian State Duma, the State Department, the Gorbachev Foundation and other international centers for foreign policy...
...would be easy to dismiss Rokhlin as a nut, if he didn't also happen to be chair of the Russian Parliament's defense committee. And on a day when the Duma threatened Yeltsin with a possible vote of no confidence, the general's speech comes as a reminder of just how deep the dissatisfaction goes -- especially in the military...
Grigory Yavlinsky, a 1996 Russian presidential candidate and leader of the Yabloko faction of the Russian State Duma, spoke last night before a packed audience at the Kennedy School of Government's Starr Auditorium...