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Also in the front-page Russia roundup: a LAT article profiles a decidedly "undemocratic" figure in Russian politics, billionaire Boris Berezovsky, who is believed to have been instrumental in Chernomyrdin's reappointment.
The NYT and WP cover Chernomyrdin's remarks inside; the WP adds that his statement, "there will be no return to the past," may have been intended to mollify the International Monetary Fund, which is scheduled to give Russia a $4.
But give the Times credit for putting forward its own clear suggestion: With Yeltsin's health problems much in evidence of late, Russians were increasingly viewing Chernomyrdin as Yeltsin's imminent successor, and "nothing infuriates Yeltsin more than the suggestion that he has lost any of his political authority."
Check out David Remnick's excellent column in this week's New Yorker for more on this, and on Al Gore's willful blindness to the corruption of his good friend Viktor Chernomyrdin.
Izvestiya said that, with this, President Boris Yeltsin has effectively given up power and Novye Izvestiya that his second coming is attributable not to any failings by Chernomyrdin's predecessor, Sergei Kiriyenko, but to Yeltsin's decision not to seek re-election in 2000.