The impeachment results do not necessarily mean that the president is strong. He is not. The results just mean that the opposition to the president is even weaker than most of us expected it to be.

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They want to make sure that the question is not resolved, that they continue to fight. And they will be a permanent irritating factor in the Russian politics.

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Yeltsin's delivery during his oath and the fact that he made no speech indicated that he was unwell, but his bearing when he walked to the podium suggested that the illness was not very serious.

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