Yeltsin The Death Rattle

Frederic Clairmont The first stage in the debacle of Yeltsin and his caste was partially achieved in the parliamentary elections in December 1995, but what remains to be galvanised is the final liquidation of Yeltsin's foreign- imposed economic dogmas. In the battle for the mind and soul of Russia, no election thus far fought will have tested the resolve of the Russian people, and indeed of the peoples of the former Soviet Union as a whole, as those of June 15.