European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 20, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes world thursday october 20,1994 to aides to be fired Moscow a president Boris Yeltsin in an Effort to staunch the flow of rumours emanating from the Kremlin on wednesday denied that the russian prime minister and foreign minister were about to be dismissed. Who s in and who s out and who s about to be out have become the grist of Moscow s Rumor Mill signal ing a High level Kremlin Power struggle. On tuesday a Moscow radio station falsely reported that prime minister Viktor Chernomyrdin had resigned for health reasons. Earlier there was widespread speculation that foreign minister Andrei Kozarev was to be Yeltsin responded angrily to the reports which could undermine the government s authority. These rumours Are absolutely unfounded he told the inter fax news Agency. I fully Trust Chernomyrdin and the two ministers were visibly absent from Moscow. Chernomyrdin was on vacation at the Seaside resort of Sochi when his resignation was reported. Kozarev was in new York at a . Meeting. Yeltsin said Hasty conclusions should not be drawn from their absence. Chernomyrdin is still on vacation arid Kozarev is on a very important Mission to derail America s aggressive movements against Iraq he said. Reports of their imminent firing were nothing but a wild canard he. Added a despite Yeltsin s assurances there were signs of a widening rift Between the prime minister and the presi Dent following last week s one Day crash of the Ruble. Chernomyrdin s standing with the president wors ened when Yeltsin included him in those blamed for last week s Ruble crisis the daily newspaper Segodnia said " -.,. / it speculated that the formerly harmonious relation ship Between Yeltsin and Chernomyrdin also was being eroded by the prime minister s envy of the fast rising first Deputy prime minister Oleg so Kovets. It was so Kovets who greeted Queen Elizabeth ii while Chernomyrdin stayed in Sochi and it was Oskor vets who me with Ireland s prime minister while Yeltsin had an untimely Nap aboard his plane during a Stop Over at Shannon Airport after the . Summit last month. Yeltsin with his instinctual leaning toward favor it ism has provided so Kovets with More and More responsibility in recent months Segodnia said. Chernomyrdin put a sinister cast on his reported res ignation. He told inter fax it was an attempt by destructive forces disrupt stabilization in the newspaper Commer Sant said Yeltsin had Good reason to fire the prime minister but the time was not right /-.,". ,. Not a single Promise Given by the government in the beginning of the year has been fulfilled. Both the Industrial slump and inflation have exceeded estimates/1 i said. the same time said there is absolutely no sense in dismissing the prime minister on the eve of a no Confidence vote in this week s vote was called amid thl russian Ruble roller coaster ride last week. Two prominent officials did lose their jobs after the Ruble lost a fourth of its value before rebounding amid heavy Central Bank intervention. Finance minister ser Gei Dubinin was fired by Yeltsin and Central Bank chairman Viktor Gerash Chenko quit under pressure from the Kremlin. Service of old can. Moscow a Queen Elizabeth ii on wednes Day attended a service at an old anglican Church newly returned to Moscow s British Community. She is a great woman and still she is just like us said Galina Morgach huddling amid a group of women against a freezing wind she has a Job and children and the same kind of troubles As any woman in the v-1. The 68-year-old Queen who on monday became the first reigning British Monarch to visit Russia wore a red Wool coat and Matching hat against the brisk morn ing weather with the season s first dusting of Snow. The Queen s visit to Russia was nearly overshadowed by revelations in a new biography that said her son Charles the Prince of Wales never loved his wife and had an unhappy childhood. Bishop Hind of Gibraltar and the Rev. Canon Chad Cousemaker met the Queen and her husband Prince Philip at the Gate and escorted them across the court Yard to the red Brick Church. A hard line nationalist group resurrection had vowed to protest the opening of any non russian orthodox Church in Moscow but there was no sign of pickets. The Church like thousands across the former soviet Union was seized by the state in 1927 and used for years by a record company because of its excellent an Ansett australian airlines Boeing 747-300 lies on its Airport. None of the 272 people aboard was injured. Acoustics. Just weeks ago the russian government de nose after its front Landing gear collapsed wednesday the plane in route to Kansas Japan had returned to Cidad to return the building to the Church. During an emergency Landing at Sydney International Sydney when one of its engines failed. Right on the nose Ukraine lifts Kiev Ukraine a parliament lifted a three year ban on the ukrainian communist party on tuesday in a disputed vote that left nationalist lawmakers scuffling with their colleagues. The decision paves the Way for an expected Campaign by Ukraine s powerful communist movement to reclaim prop erty confiscated when the party was abolished after the failed soviet coup of a gust 19.91. About 100 communist party leaders and their supporters gathered outside the parliament building after the vote Sig ing an old communist labor hymn and talking optimistically about the future. Three million card holding members decent people were criminalized Over night by the illegal ruling of parliament s presidium three years ago communist Leader Petro Symonenko said. They now have their dignity nationalist legislators claiming the communists want to re establish the so a Viet Union disrupted the debate in Par nationalist Deputy Ivan Zayats Center throws a punch at a pro communist official lament by unfurling banners proclaiming after the parliamentary debate or the ukrainian communist party. That the communist party is a fascist is party communist some nationalists claimed ballot irregularities saying several deputies had voted by proxy and were not present for the vote. After five minutes of shouting and scuffling speaker Aleksandr Moroz proclaimed the session Over for the Day without addressing the allegations. The action passed in a 201-105 vote with 32 abstaining is the latest development in a Long Battle Between the communists and Central government to reverse the 1991 ruling. Last october the Justice ministry agreed to Register the communist party As a new political organization distinct from its predecessor enabling it to Field candidates in elections. It has about 130,000 members. Against a background of economic col lapse and widespread disenchantment with the benefits of Independence communists scored major successes in parliamentary elections this year. By far. The largest single group in parliament the communist party controls 94 of 394 seats so far decided
