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Article: Russian president could be victim of coup, analysts say
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 7, 1995
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WASHINGTON -- In public, the administration admits to some concern
over Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin's handling of the crisis in
Chechnya but says it has confidence in him.
In private, analysts in the CIA, State Department and other
government sectors are debating whether Yeltsin will be the victim of
a military coup or whether he has already fallen prey to a "creeping
coup" that has placed him under the thrall of hard-liners. Some
analysts project the even more disturbing scenario of a mutiny by a
humiliated Russian army.
The bottom line for these analysts is that Russia is far more
likely to be an authoritarian regime a few years hence than a
democracy.
The disquiet in the ...