81. One issue on which all sides agreed during the impeachment debate was the gravity of the process which could end with the removal of president. 82. Pro-government lawmakers proposed delaying the impeachment debate, set to start next Thursday. 83. President Bill Clinton was an ocean away from the impeachment debate when the tide began to turn against him. 84. President Boris Yeltsin said a looming impeachment debate should take place soon as scheduled or be dropped completely, the Kremlin said Monday. 85. Primakov was also slow to speak out publicly against the Communist-led impeachment debate against Yeltsin, which has been postponed until mid-May. 86. Primakov was expected to meet Tuesday with Communist leaders in the Duma, probably to discuss the impeachment debate, Zyuganov said. 87. Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov urged parliamentary leaders on Friday to put off a scheduled impeachment debate on President Boris Yeltsin in light of the NATO airstrikes on Yugoslavia. 88. Pro-government lawmakers proposed delaying the impeachment debate. 89. Russian politics heated up last week when Yeltsin fired Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov and his Cabinet the day before the Duma began its impeachment debate. 90. Still, he said Tuesday that the impeachment debate must take place, sooner or later. |
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