RUSSIAN PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION CONSIDERING POSSIBILITY OF MARTIAL LAW

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• Document Creation Date: July 13, 2023
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• Case Number: F-2020-00968
• Publication Date: August 9, 1999

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DIST: 9 AUGUST 1999
COUNTRY: RUSSIA
SUBJ: RUSSIAN PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION CONSIDERING
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TEXT: 1. RUSSIAN
PRESS, TELEVISION, AND RADIO BROADCASTING AND MASS COMMUNICATIONS
MEDIA MINISTER MIKHAIL ((LESIN)) SAID THAT BORIS ((YEL'TSIN))'S
PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION (PA) WAS CONSIDERING THE IMPOSITION OF
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MARTIAL LAW AS ONE SOLUTION TO THE GROWING INSTABILITY IN RUSSIAN
POLITICS. ACCORDING TO LESIN, PA HEAD MIKHAIL ((VOLOSHIN)) HAS
BECOME INCREASINGLY PARANOID ABOUT YEL'ISIN'S DECLINING
POPULARITY, THE GROWING POPULARITY OF MOSCOW MAYOR YURIY
((LUZHKOV)), AND THE UNREST IN CHECHNYA. LESIN DESCRIBED VOLOSHIN
AS DESPERATE ENOUGH TO TAKE DRASTIC MEASURES LIKE MARTIAL LAW IN
ORDER TO KEEP YEL'TSIN AND HIS REGIME IN OFFICE.
2. IN ADDITION, LESIN SAID THAT VOLOSHIN AND YEL'TSIN WANTED
TO PUSH OUT PREMIER SERGEY ((STEPASHIN)) IN FAVOR OF FEDERAL
SECURITY *SERVICE (FSB) DIRECTOR AND SECURITY COUNCIL SECRETARY
VLADIMIR ((PUTIN)). COMMENT: ON 9 AUGUST 1999,
YEL'TSIN INDEED FIRED STEPASHIN AS PREMIER AND REPLACED HIM WITH
PUTIN.) ACCORDING TO LESIN, THE PA RECENTLY DECIDED THAT FIRST
DEPUTY PREMIER NIKOLAY ((AKSENENKO)) HAD TOO MANY ODD IDEAS TO RUN
THE GOVERNMENT AND BEGAN CONSIDERING PUTIN FOR THE PREMIER'S JOB.
3. LESIN SAID THAT STEPASHIN WAS ACUTELY AWARE OF THE
PRECARIOUSNESS OF HIS POSITION. LESIN ADDED THAT STEPASHIN HAS
EVEN TALKED WITH LUZHKOV ABOUT A POSITION ON THE FATHERLAND TICKET
SHOULD YEL'TSIN REPLACE HIM WITH PUTIN. CLEARLY AGITATED, LESIN
SAID THAT IF THE KREMLIN CONTINUED MAKING STUPID MOVES LIKE THE
CONSIDERATION OF MARTIAL LAW, THEN HE WOULD ALSO JOIN LUZHKOV'S
FATHERLAND PARTY. LESIN COMPLAINED THAT THE KREMLIN HAS NOT
SERIOUSLY THOUGHT ABOUT REPLACING VOLOSHIN WITH SOMEONE MORE
REASONABLE.
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