Yeltsin names fired minister as head of Foreign Intelligence Service
President Yeltsin appointed Viktor Yerin, formerly interior minister ousted for incompetence after a hostage crisis, as deputy head of the Foreign Intelligence Service. Critics call the move absurd while lawmakers warn of danger to national security amid Chechnya turmoil.
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Yeltsin
Foreign Intelligence
Moscow
Boris Yeltsin
Viktor Yerin
Yerin
Russia
Yegor Gaidar
Viktor Ilyukin
Federal Security Service
KGB
Nationalities
Chechnya
Vyacheslav Mikhailov
Viktor Yerin Named Russia Interior Minister in 1992
Viktor Yerin, 51, a former deputy interior minister who rose from Tatarstan in law enforcement, is regarded as part of Boris Yeltsin's inner circle and a hawkish minister among the "party of war" pushing to send troops into Chechnya.
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Yerin
Russia
Interior Ministry
Chechnya
Viktor Yerin
Boris Yeltsin
Party of War
Tatarstan
Soviet Union
Yeltsin
Haitian runoff elections postponed amid ballot irregularities
Runoff elections for parliament and municipal posts in Haiti were delayed after parties protested irregularities in the first round. The runoff, moved from July 23 to August or August 13 per state media, follows widespread fraud concerns, late ballot delivery, missing names, and outreach failures affecting over 100,000 voters.
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Port-Au-Prince
Haiti
Elmire Price
Provisional Electoral Council
Price
Lavalas Platform
Jean- Bertrand Aristide
Austrians seek radical church reforms amid Groer scandal
More than half a million Austrians petition for church reforms including priestly marriage and women’s ordination after allegations of abuse by Cardinal Hans-Hermann Groer. Organizers say signatures exceed expectations as calls grow for congregational input in bishop appointments, end to priest celibacy, remarried divorcee communion, and broader conscience in moral matters.
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Vienna
Austria
Hans-Hermann Groer
Groer
National Bishops’ Conference
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