Abstract

Editorials

The article presents information on important policy matters in Europe and various political developments in Moscow. Presented by partisans as crucial for the fate of Europe and watched by outsiders with apprehension, the French referendum on the Maastricht treaty, to be held on September 20, is not an exemplary contest between right and wrong. It is a phony battle between two self-contradictory coalitions. Moscow is no longer an international player as during the cold war. But just below the placid surface came the tremors of a society undergoing a metamorphosis from the secure world of the past to the nebulous future being invented from day to day by the quarreling privatizers and ex-Communist industrial managers surrounding leader Boris Yeltsin.