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- <text id=93TT2588>
- <title>
- Jan. 04, 1993: Boris' Shell Game
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Jan. 04, 1993 Man of the Year:Bill Clinton
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 12
- WORLD
- Boris' Shell Game
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>The Russian Cabinet changes, but not enough to please parliament
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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