LEBED’S OUSTER COULD BRING PROBLEMS.

Lt. Gen. Aleksandr Lebed will announce his intentions at a press conference May 12, but if he leaves his post as commander of the 14th Russian Army in Moldova’s Trandniestr region, that step could reignite the conflict there. Segodnya said that the Transdniestr authorities, Moldova, and even Ukraine, might intervene. And the paper sharply criticized those like Defense Minister Grachev who seem to have forgotten that Lebed without a uniform may be more frightening than a Lebed in one.

Constitutional Court Refuses Appeal on Chechnya.