The Russians Are Back: Yeltsin's Agenda At the U.S.-Russia Summit

Publication Date: September 1994

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Evgueni Volk

Research Area: Government

Keywords: Russia and Eurasia

Type: Report

Coverage: Russia (Federation)

Abstract:

Boris Yeltsin comes to Washington much stronger than in past summits. The economic and political crises that bedeviled him in the past are subsiding, and the Russian president is feeling more confident that ever before. This new-found confidence will assert itself in his meetings with Bill Clinton. Yeltsin will ask Clinton to recognize Russia’s national interests in ways that may make the American president uncomfortable. As he does so, Yeltsin will be pressing the outer limits of the US.-Russian relationship. How far Clinton is willing to go to assuage Yeltsin will help decide not only the political fortunes of Yeltsin back home, but the basic character of the US.-Russian relationship for the remainder of Clinton’s presidency.