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THE WEEK, Page 20WORLDBoris' Revenge
Yeltsin makes life miserable for the rival he once helped save
Mikhail Gorbachev was never as popular at home as abroad. But
last week the former Soviet President's status in Russia
reached an all-time low. The once omnipotent Gorbachev has been
waging -- and lately losing -- a war of recrimination with his
former rival, Russian President Boris Yeltsin. First Yeltsin's
government barred Gorbachev from leaving the country and fined
him because he refused to testify at a trial investigating the
ostracized Communist Party. Then Yeltsin ordered the police to
seize the Moscow headquarters of the Gorbachev Foundation, the
former leader's political think tank. "This is all happening in
a country that its leaders call democratic," Gorbachev
complained as police guarded the building's entrance.
The eviction came one day after Gorbachev lambasted
Yeltsin and his government in a newspaper interview, charging
that the Russian leader had failed and should hand over power
to a governing state council. The reprisal seemed petty, and it
diverted public attention away from the real business of the
week: Yeltsin's major address to parliament in which he defended
his economic-reform program, criticized three Ministers of his
own government for poor performance, and offered to cooperate
with some of his political opponents.