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Article: From anarchy to Zhirinovsky? (Russian opposition leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky's threat to Boris Yeltsin's power)
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- National Review
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- March 21, 1994
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THE Russo-American "honeymoon" is over even if official Washington doesn't know it yet. Harbingers abound: Russian missile sales to India; Russian troops interfere in Georgia and Kirgizia; Russian spy caught with his hand in the CIA cookie jar; Bosnian Serbs' chestnuts pulled from NATO fire by Russian ultimatum. Curiously, all of these signs of discord are met by official denial in Washington. None of them, we are told by the White House, signals any cooling in the cozy post-Cold War romance between Russia and the United States. And, like a mindless society editor, the media continue to report how ecstatic the couple is.
The increasing strains on the ...