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DIED Boris Fyodorov, 50, a former Deputy Prime Minister under Boris Yeltsin, was a well-known reformer who co-founded the United Financial Group, one of Russia's leading investment banks. He spoke against corruption, demanding corporate oversight...
...upheaval and dash Yeltsin's hopes for his legacy as a reformer. At the Kremlin on Friday, he vowed there would be no devaluation and issued a fusillade of decrees on how to get tough with tax dodgers. He fired the chief tax collector and replaced him with Boris Fyodorov, a former Finance Minister and a true reformer. Yeltsin also announced plans to cut spending...
...total vote helps Yeltsin because Zyuganov's base among the hard-core disgruntled is thought to level off at 25%. In Round 2 of the campaign, the leaders will scramble to pick up supporters from the nine failed candidates. Yeltsin is expected to win backers from Yavlinsky, Lebed and Fyodorov, while many of the nationalists favoring Vladimir Zhirinovsky could fall in behind Zyuganov...
...Wednesday, former eye-surgeon turned candidate Svyatoslav Fyodorov met with Yeltsin and to propose a national unity government with representatives from all the parties. Yeltsin said he would consider the plan, while Valentin Kuptsov, Communist Party campaign organizer, called the idea quite reasonable. "People are scared of a civil war," adds Zarakhovich. "That is the reason for all this talk of coalitions and national unity governments. No matter who wins, Yeltsin or Zyuganov, the loser will continue to oppose them, and in Russia, where the legal structures are not as solid as those in the United States, a civil...
...even if their leader may sometimes sound like a Social Democrat, Russia's half a million communists today represent the most hard-line core of the party that once had 18 million members. If voters need any reminding of communism's horrors, the "Forward, Russia!" party of economist Boris Fyodorov has put up a huge poster in Moscow reading: 50 MILLION VICTIMS OF CIVIL WAR, COLLECTIVIZATION AND REPRESSION WOULD NOT VOTE FOR ZYUGANOV. The trouble for Yeltsin and Russia's beleaguered reformers is that on Dec. 17, much of the electorate probably will...