Quotable notes

"President Clinton permitted himself to put pressure on Russia. It seems he has for a minute forgotten that Russia has a full arsenal of nuclear weapons, but Clinton decided to flex his muscles. It has never been and never will be the case that he will dictate to the whole world how to live. ... A multi-polar world - that is the basis for everything. It will be as we agreed with Jiang Zemin. We will dictate to the world. Not him, not him alone."

- President Boris Yeltsin of Russia, speaking during his trip to Beijing on December 9 in reaction to President Bill Clinton's criticism of Russia's military assault on Chechnya.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, December 19, 1999, No. 51, Vol. LXVII

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