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THE WEEK, Page 12WORLDBoris' Shell Game
The Russian Cabinet changes, but not enough to please parliament
Nine days of suspense over the makeup of Russia's new
government finally broke: President Boris Yeltsin's key
reformist ministers will keep their jobs after all. Yeltsin's
abrupt abandonment of his acting Prime Minister, free-market
maven Yegor Gaidar, made the announcement a relief for those who
feared that the Russian President was forsaking the country's
radical reform path altogether. Among the key players from the
Gaidar team retaining their posts are Deputy Prime Ministers
Alexander Shokhin and Anatoli Chubais. Foreign Minister Andrei
Kozyrev was also kept on. No changes were announced in the key
Interior, Defense and Security ministries.
With so little changed in the lineup, Yeltsin is bound to
face more battles with the conservative parliament, which
marked its petulance by passing a law last week on government
structure, rejecting the President's request for ultimate
executive authority. Under the circumstances, such legislation
appeared little more than a reflection of reality.