YAVLINSKY STICKS TO HIS GUNS.

Publication: Monitor Volume: 2 Issue: 98

Yabloko leader Grigory Yavlinsky reiterated May 19 that he would not negotiate any electoral alliance with Boris Yeltsin until the Russian president had sacked Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and other leading members of his entourage. (Interfax, May 20) In TV and radio interviews last weekend, Yeltsin indicated his willingness to add "fresh faces" to his cabinet. "Why not take interesting ideas from Yavlinsky and other candidates?" he asked. "Why not take personnel from other political movements?" He said he was considering a government reshuffle to set up a coalition government, drafting