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July 22, 1996

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letter from russia

THE WAR FOR THE KREMLIN

David Remnick

LETTER FROM RUSSIA about Boris Yeltsin's election in Russia. The writer met with Valdimir Kryuchkov, the last K.G.B. head, in the last days of the …