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That's forward thinking, but Moscow has an oversupply of yesterday's men who are concerned about Russia's security above all. If NATO expands, says Sergei Yushenkov, one of parliament's leading defense experts, START II, "is dead. There is no chance it will be ratified by the Duma...
...counter-offensive: to strengthen ties with CIS neighbors such as Ukraine and Kazakhstan and Belarus. A man infamous for his extravagant p romises, Yeltsin wisely made few in a sober and sobering 24-minute address. One, to pay all pensions owed by June 3, actually drew some smiles from Duma members. Other skepticism was not so thinly disguised. Afterward, Communist Party leader Genna dy Zyuganov called the performance "miserable, helpless, buffoonery without any real content behind it. I would like to hear why there is no economic growth. And why pensions, social payments and wages are not being paid." Yeltsin...
...this week. In his absence, Communist Deputy Viktor Ilyukhin, backed by ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, has spearheaded a movement in the Russian Parliament to impeach Yeltsin due to ill health. It's a somewhat empty gesture, since under complex constitutional rules that Yeltsin rammed through in 1993, the Duma is not likely to impeach, and Yeltsin can dissolve the body at any time. But the vote movement reflects the increasing frustration of a country facing enormous economic and social woes, where everything is put on hold waiting for Yeltsin either to govern in his previous forceful manner or step aside...
...conversation between Chubais and other top campaign aides. In it, they discuss ways to slow and then possibly block criminal inquiries into the case of two Yeltsin election workers, detained as they left a government building, allegedly carrying more than half a million dollars in cash. The opposition-dominated Duma, or lower house of parliament, maintains that Yeltsin vastly exceeded the campaign-spending limits and that the dollars were part of an illegal slush fund. The Duma has called on Yeltsin to suspend Chubais until the case is resolved. Yeltsin has not responded...
...11th hour alliance clearly more of an inspired election gambit than a reasoned partnership. Even when the two were allegedly on the same team, the feisty former general called Russia's president a "minus," and managed to alienate nearly every member of Yeltsin's adminstration. Even the communist-dominated Duma, usually no friend to Yeltsin, cheered Lebed's dismissal. "It should have happened a month ago," said Communist leader Gennadi Zyuganov. But now that it has, Zyuganov and Yeltsin are equally threatened politically by Lebed. The former paratrooper's pragmatic platform of crime fighting, plain speaking and his undiluted conviction...