MOSCOW — As the April 25 referendum approaches, Russian President Boris Yeltsin's authority is crumbling in the country's provinces, regions and constituent republics. Already a persistent feature of Yeltsin's presidency,
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MOSCOW, March 30 — Russians will have the chance on April 25 to vote in a referendum on President Boris Yeltsin's "shock therapy" economic policies. In other questions in the parliament-sponsored poll, voters will be asked
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MOSCOW, March 25 — On the fifth day after Russian President Boris Yeltsin decreed "special rule" throughout the country, the local administrations in Russia's provinces and republics were splitting into supporters of the
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MOSCOW — President Boris Yeltsin's attempt to overthrow the Russian constitution was prepared in consultation with Western leaders, and went ahead with their firm support. The coup was not, as the Western media have sought
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MOSCOW — For people who follow events in Latin America as well as Russia, there was something strangely familiar about President Yeltsin's March 20 declaration of "special powers". Last April a nearly identical formula
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MOSCOW — Among television journalists in particular, the practice is quite the norm. You fly in; you get the story; you fly out again. You talk to the people who count, get their statements, frame the interviews with a few
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MOSCOW — Amid anguished plaints from liberal ideologues and the indifference of the mass of the population, the Eighth Congress of People's Deputies of the Russian Federation voted on March 12 to strip President Boris
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MOSCOW — "What has occurred has been an attempt to concentrate power fully in the hands of the Soviets, to return the Communist nomenklatura to the levers of government, and to seize back the democratic conquests of August
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MOSCOW — Antinuclear activists in Russia plan a vigorous campaign against a new government program which would increase sharply the number of nuclear power reactors operating on Russian territory. The government's plans
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MOSCOW — It could have been any of a series of meetings called in recent times by the outlawed Communist Party. The venue was kept secret until the last moment. Would-be participants were required to appear on the morning
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MOSCOW — In a resort complex north of the Russian capital on February 13 and 14, a "refounding-reunifying congress" re-established the Communist Party. More than a thousand people, including 651 delegates from all parts of
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MOSCOW — As set forward recently by labour minister Gennady Melikyan, the Russian government's "solution" to unemployment is a familiar line from the West — "Women back into the home!" More than 70% of Russia's