Volume 43, Number 13 · August 8, 1996
The Struggle for the Kremlin
By Jack F. Matlock
In January most people thought President Boris Yeltsin could not win a free election. Their attitude was reflected in a story that made the rounds in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Yeltsin,it went, was taking an evening stroll across an open field near his dacha and stumbled on an old bottle. He picked it up, pulled the cork, and out jumped a jinni, who bowed to him and said, 'Thank you for releasing me from 3,000 years of captivity! In gratitude, I will grant you a wish.'
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