Russia Watch: Not Yet the Worst
Bernstein, Jonas
"Russia Watch: Not Yet the Worst" As long as you ignore Chechnya and the corruption....
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...In the first round of voting, Lebed had tied his future boss in Tula voting...
...Long clung to by Westerners as a dove, Chernomyrdin replied simply that, while his government was committed to peace talks, he was not optimistic about their outcome since the Chechen rebels were to blame for the cease-fire's end...
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...R U S S I A WATCH Not Yet the Worst As long as you ignore Chechnya and the corruption...
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...Afterwards, Lebed refused to comment, saying it was a matter for the prosecutor general's office...
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...Lebed had campaigned on a platform calling for an immediate withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya and allowing the Chechens to hold a referendum on independence...
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...The interview, unlike many election-related items in the Russian press during the campaign, had the ring of authenticity...
...The human rights group Memorial welcomed the arrests, but noted that, while there have been dozens of similar crimes in Chechnya, including the massacre of a hundred civilians in the town of Samashki in April 1995, the number of prosecutions has been negligible...
...This pattern of last-minute voting occurred throughout the country, apparently because some rocket scientist at state television had decided to air a very popular Brazilian soap opera late afternoon election day...
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...The newspaper Novaya Gazeta, for example, recently published a transcript of a conversation last April with Boris Fyodorov, who at that time headed the notorious National Sports Fund...
...Boris Yeltsin's convincing election defeat of Gennady Zyuganov is proof that most Russians are perfectly capable of distinguishing between bad and worse...
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...Vice President Al Gore, in town for his seventh gab-fest with Prime Minister Chemomyrdin and to praise Russians for having chosen "a bright future...
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...In the conversation, Fyodorov described sports minister Shamil Tarpishev, Yeltsin's favorite tennis partner in times of better health, as having close links with "Taivanchik," a leading mafia boss, Moscow's Ismailovskaya criminal group, and others...
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...The promise to end that war secured your joint victory in the elections...
...Just prior to the second round of voting July 3, one Moscow newspaper departed from the Soviet-style proYeltsin propaganda which had been proliferating for weeks in the press, and ran a short interview with a small-time trader who explained why he would vote for the incumbent...
...Lebed's promise to fight crime and corruption at least, if not promising, is more promising...
...It's that powerful and that effective...
...On the day of the run-off vote, I was in the city of Tula, a hundred miles south of Moscow...
...Rokhlin also outlined an incredibly Byzantine scheme by which Vorobyov embezzled millions of dollars from the Central Bank and disguised the profits, which were also deposited in Germany, as receipts from the sale of fuel and lubricants in Poland...
...his earlier promises had been made as a candidate, but now he was a member of a "team...
...Such behavior displayed a healthy attitude, and was refreshing compared, for example, to the hagiographic outpourings after Yeltsin's victory from ex-privatization czar Anatoly Chubais...
...Yeltsin, they say, values "loyalty...
...Once he joined the government, however, all that peace stuff was quickly forgotten...
...Meanwhile, Tarpishev remains sports minister, and Moskovskiye Novosti reported that Lisovsky is on the short list to take over ORT, Russia's main TV channel...
...Whether the anti-corruption campaign will have legs is questionable...
...They talked at length about the shallowness of support forYeltsin in the region...
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...The military was busy carrying out massive attacks on rebel positions in and around a string of towns and villages, making a mockery of the May cease-fire and killing dozens of civilians in the process...
...As it turned out, there was a last-minute wave of voting in the evening, just before the polls closed, and Yeltsin took Tula by a comfortable margin...
...generally they believe in nothing other than power...
...One of the masterminds of the Yeltsin campaign, Chubais held a press conference several days after the runoff to announce that he had absolutely no interest in securing a post in the president's new government...
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...The meeting instead took place the next day, after which Gorewho'd reportedly been miffed about the last-minute brush-off- pretended to have found Yeltsin "in a very good spirit" and to have discussed many weighty issues with him "in depth...
...But with Yeltsin, at least, there's a chance to make a go of it...
...I, personally, was sure from the very start that your promises were lies...
...But he hailed Yeltsin as a historical figure greater than such industrializers and reformers as Sergei Witte, Peter Stolypin, and Czar Alexander II...
...The same day of that press conference, a group of apparently non-neutralized Russian soldiers in an armored personnel carrier shot up several civilian cars near Grozny...
...64 September 1996 • The American Spectator They reportedly chased down and stabbed the survivors, cutting off the ears of several of their victims...
...Two Russian interior ministry soldiers were subsequently arrested for the attack, and could face fifteen years in prison if found guilty...
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...Lev Rokhlin, a reserve general and one of Lebed's allies in the State Duma, had led the charge with several speeches detailing the generals' financial shenanigans...
...indeed, he said, Yeltsin was on par with Peter the Great...
...Rokhlin charged that back in 1993, Vasily Vorobyov, former head of the Defense Ministry's finance department, transferred $23.1 million from army ammunition sold to Bulgaria into a German bank...
...Yeltsin, who was recovering from whatever it is that's wrong with him, blew off a scheduled meeting with the veep, leaving the Kremlin for a government health resort outside Moscow...
...One could imagine them saying to their families and friends around 7 p.m., "Well, I guess we'd better go vote for Boris Nikolayevich...
...Meanwhile, Sergei Kovalyev, the exdissident, political prisoner, and former human-rights watchdog under Yeltsin, wrote an open letter to protest the new offensive, addressed to the president and Lebed, the new security czar...
...The matter was then kicked downstairs to the Moscow city prosecutor's office, which is now "verifying" the charges made in the transcript...
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...Yeltsin had pulled another disappearing act, and a Zyuganov victory seemed possible...
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...People used the fact that voting day was an official holiday to go shopping, and then went home to catch the soap opera...
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...Unfortunately for Al, his celebration of Russian democracy coincided with the Kremlin's decision to renege on its preelection promise to end the war in Chechnya...
...Around midday I dropped by Lebed's local campaign headquarters, which was now working in tandem with the Yeltsin campaign.Staffers were very nervous: voter turnout was light...
...Fyodorov claimed that Aleksandr Korzhakov, former presidential security chief, and Mikhail Barsukov, ex-head of the security police, would try to kill him because of a financial dispute...
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...Asked about the apparent contradiction between his platform and the new military offensive, Lebed simply shrugged it off...
...Fyodorov described advertising mogul Sergei Lisovsky, one of Chubais's two top assistants during the campaign, as being closely connected to leading mafiosi...
...The ability of Russian politicos to change their positions on key issues would put Bill Clinton to shame...
...The State Department had condemned the new fighting in Chechnya and the loss of civilian lives on the eve of Gore's trip...
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...Vorobyov, he said, also cut a deal with a Kazakh commercial bank that involved money laundering for certain Central Asia "commercial structures" in Moscow...
...On the day following the official announcement of the results of the voting you resumed the bloody Chechen war," Kovalyev wrote from his hospital bed, where he was recovering from a massive heart attack...
...He has apparently been given a green light to clean out the armed forces, which dovetails with his need to purge the military of generals linked to his old nemesis, former defense minister Pavel Grachev, who was sent to pasture following Lebed's accession...
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Vol. 29 • September 1996 • No. 9
