"Today, the Prime Minister is due to fly to New Zealand, and that is how it is customary to dress up important guests. The departure of the head of the government to a super exotic country at a time when the situation in Dagestan has heated up to the limit, and explosions are heard in Moscow every day, has already caused a lot of perplexed questions. But Putin simply could not fly. And the point here is not only that the cancellation of the visit would humiliate Yeltsin (they say that without the prime minister the president is no longer good for anything) and draw the attention of the whole world to the instability of the situation in Russia."