The Fortnight in Review The fortnight saw two major developments in Russia. One was a mini-government reshuffle in which Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin clipped the wings of his two reformist first deputies, Anatoly Chubais and Boris Nemtsov. Neither lost his post, but both have been... MORE

The Fortnight in Review The year 1997 closed with a flurry of political activity in Russia as President Boris Yeltsin and his parliamentary opponents maneuvered over the state budget and sparred on the issue of land reform. Amid claims of some positive developments in the... MORE

The Fortnight in Review Russia: Budget Debate and Yeltsin's Health Top the News The fortnight began on December 5 with an unprecedented visit by President Boris Yeltsin to the State Duma, where he appealed to Russia's recalcitrant parliamentarians to approve the 1998 federal budget in... MORE

The Fortnight in Review The political future of Russian first deputy premier Anatoly Chubais remained a subject of media speculation over the past fortnight, but despite that ongoing saga and the enactment of a breakthrough law on land reform in Saratov Oblast, the Kremlin's eyes... MORE

The Fortnight in Review Yeltsin Punishes Architect of Privatization A week is a long time in politics, former British prime minister Harold Wilson once famously remarked. Two weeks ago, First Deputy Premier and Finance Minister Anatoly Chubais was riding high, displaying his political muscle by... MORE

The Fortnight in Review Yeltsin Punishes Architect of Privatization A week is a long time in politics, former British prime minister Harold Wilson once famously remarked. Two weeks ago, First Deputy Premier and Finance Minister Anatoly Chubais was riding high, displaying his political muscle by... MORE

The Fortnight in Review President Boris Yeltsin emerged triumphant in his latest shoot-out with the Russian Duma, but the victory seemed likely only to defer indefinitely consideration of several of Russia's key economic and political problems. Moscow did record an economic triumph of sorts, however,... MORE

The Fortnight in Review Eyeball to Eyeball on the Budget Tensions mounted as the lower house of the Russian parliament prepared to debate the government's draft 1998 federal budget. Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov called the government's spending plans "barbaric" and said his party would... MORE

The Fortnight in Review An initiative by Boris Yeltsin over the past fortnight to rein in Russia's most powerful financial groups suggested that the country may be at yet another fork in the road on its long and still uncertain journey from the Soviet past.... MORE

The Fortnight in Review Moscow celebrated an anniversary, but the festive mood in the Russian capital seems unlikely to extend to the Duma, which reconvened after its summer break and is soon to consider a number of important bills. The Kremlin, meanwhile, launched yet another... MORE