It is likely to be upheld in these decisions by the Russian Constitutional Court, operating under the chairmanship of another Old Guard apparatchik, Valery Zorkin.
Yeltsin, Zorkin and Khasbulatov have worked in the past, this one only served to make most parliamentarians more intractable in their determination to preserve a largely centrally-controlled system and their privileged positions.
As Russian President Boris Yeltsin begins meeting with those who twenty-four hours ago were determined to impeach him Parliamentary Speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov and the Chairman of the Constitutional Court Valery Zorkin expectations are rising that yet another deal might be cut between them.