MOSCOW : More Legal Fireworks
The Supreme Soviet, Russia’s 242-member standing legislature, reconvenes Tuesday after a New Year’s recess for what is expected to be a round of confrontations over President Boris N. Yeltsin’s foreign policy.
Opposition lawmakers say they will challenge the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty signed last week by Yeltsin and President Bush as a sellout to American interests. They also plan to contest Yeltsin’s reappointment of Foreign Minister Andrei A. Kozyrev, claiming it is illegal.
This session of the Supreme Soviet, due to last until June, may be its last. A proposed new constitution to be presented to Russian voters in an April referendum could, if approved, mandate early elections.
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