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from: RFE/RL Research Institute Daily Report [ to help you sleep
From: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 15:52:03 -0500
LEADERSHIP CONSENSUS ON "GREAT-POWER PATRIOTISM." President Boris Yeltsin on 17 November chaired a meeting of the leaders of the two chambers of the Russian parliament down to the level of committee chairmen. Duma speaker Ivan Rybkin told Interfax that "virtually all participants agreed that great-power patriotism and extricating the country from the present crisis are ideas everybody is ready to work for, regardless of their political orientation." The appeal to nationalism seems to bear out senior foreign policy analyst Georgii Arbatov's assessment of Yeltsin's 14 November statement to the military command, which appeared to revise major Russian assumptions about cooperation with the West. That was "not an isolated statement. There is a growing anti-American, anti-Western mood among our politicians," Arbatov told the Financial Times of 17 November. Vladimir Socor, RFE/RL, Inc.
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