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...over the country's security and military structures. And they were clearly unnerved last week when Lebed denounced the Defense Ministry's intention to reduce the size of the airborne forces, including some of Russia's last remaining elite troops. Lebed, a former airborne officer, railed against Defense Minister Igor Rodionov's planned cuts. They were "criminal," he said, thus bringing into the open a monthlong rift with his one-time protege in the Defense Ministry. A senior airborne officer also spoke out against the cuts. He was removed last week at the same time as Lebed. The officer...
...great power make him popular with the electorate. Now that Lebed is out, he can portray himself as the last honest man in the Yeltsin administration, a result which is probably a calculated risk on the Kremlin's part. After a series of confrontations with former ally Defense Minister Igor Rodionov, and Interior Minister Anatoly Kulikov which sent charges of contract murder, treason, corruption spying and coup plotting (which no one seems to believe) flying through the press, Yeltsin seems to have decided that Lebed was better off out of his government. He may come to regret it. If Yeltsin...
...house briefing document for the political leadership recently warned, "Russia faces a difficult autumn and winter." Discontent with the government's failure to pay back wages grows. Last week defense workers picketed in Moscow to demand months of back pay and did so with the blessing of Defense Minister Igor Rodionov...
...this weekend, the man behind the puppets, Igor Fokin, died of heart failure at the age of 36. The death came as a shock, according to family and friends...
...formal decision has been made yet" to do the surgery at the Cardiological Research Center, its academic secretary, Dr. Igor Ashmarin, insisted to TIME. "But should they finally choose the center," he then conceded, "it will definitely be Akchurin...