Mr Chernomyrdin's muddled mission highlights the two big questions about Russian policy towards Kosovo.
The diagram, shown to Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, Layard recalled, persuaded Chernomyrdin to shift policy.
"In the upcoming days, we can expect a halt in the bombing, " Chernomyrdin said.
Chernomyrdin, the paper said, was a political heavyweight who created a political and economic system.
Mr Chernomyrdin's big asset in all this is his lack of strongly held principles.
And Mr Chernomyrdin himself certainly seemed perplexed by the way he had been treated.
Viktor Chernomyrdin is back as Russia's prime minister just five months after being sacked by President Yeltsin.
Its leader is another former (and much longer-lasting) prime minister, Viktor Chernomyrdin, now joined by Mr Fedorov.
Chernomyrdin left office March 1998 and returned for two weeks in August 1998 as a temporary prime minister.
So Mr Berezovsky's camp has been busy praising Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russia's older and more stolidly pragmatic prime minister.
Chernomyrdin arrived in Belgrade a few hours after the attack on the residence.
For all that, it is hard to see Mr Chernomyrdin triumphing, as he hopes, in a free presidential election.
They were officially received by President Boris Yeltsin, Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, and the mayors of Moscow and St.
The result is that Mr Chernomyrdin is squeezed between his backers' ambitions and the requirements of the real world.
Chernomyrdin said he did not believe his threat of legal action against Bush would damage relations between Moscow and Washington.
Ahtisaari, Chernomyrdin and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott were due to meet again in Helsinki, Finland, on Friday.
The latest wave of air attacks came as Russian envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin prepared for talks in Belgrade Thursday with Milosevic.
It would have been hard to imagine Mr Chernomyrdin, himself closely tied to the gas industry, saying the same thing.
At best, the next prime minister will be somebody less seasoned than Mr Chernomyrdin, less able to hold the ring.
Mr Chernomyrdin showed a useful ability to tap the wheels of government and make them go round roughly as desired.
Chernomyrdin pointed out that he had been out of office for several months by the time the IMF money reached Moscow.
President Yeltsin had sacked his long-time Prime Minister, Viktor Chernomyrdin, in March, replacing him with the almost unknown Sergei Kiriyenko.
Ahtisaari briefed EU leaders in Cologne, Germany, on Thursday evening, while Chernomyrdin returned to Moscow to discuss the talks with his government.
But his troubles will look tame against Mr Chernomyrdin's if the crisis deepens, inflation and unemployment rise, and another debt default looms.
Unfortunately, Mr Chernomyrdin has since departed the political scene, leaving his promises in the same legal limbo as the previous unenforced decrees.
In 1994, Vice-President Al Gore signed an agreement with Viktor Chernomyrdin, then Russia's prime minister, to close down the reactors by 2000.
Mr Chernomyrdin, needless to say, has been sounding him out for support.
He also gets on well with Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russia's middle-of-the-road prime minister.
Some members may feel the wisest course will be to approve Mr Kiriyenko, and then harass his government just as it harassed Mr Chernomyrdin's.
"I expect apologies because this is foolishness, " said Chernomyrdin, who was visiting New York to receive an annual award, the Blessing of the St.
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