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Article: Yeltsin: the problem, not the solution. (Boris Yeltsin, current Pres of Russia)
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- The National Interest
- Article date:
- September 22, 1997
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The dead man grasps the living. The corpse of the old world is decomposing among us, poisoning everything alive. That corpse stinks!
- V.I. Lenin
It may be autumn, but metaphorically it seems to be springtime in Russia once again. Boris Yeltsin is back, in fighting form, after an eight month absence due to heart surgery and subsequent pneumonia. He has given a free hand to Anatoly Chubais and Boris Nemtsov, who were installed in March as first deputy prime ministers with a mandate to revive market reform. These two men are the sort of politicians Western observers like to see at the helm in Moscow - young, forty-something technocrats who are healthy, ...