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...Communist Party's standard-bearer in the presidential race is Gennadi Zyuganov, a smooth customer and an opponent of Boris Yeltsin's in the last days of the U.S.S.R. As observers both Russian and foreign point out, Zyuganov can preach it round or flat. He sounds like a social democrat when he meets with Western businessmen and diplomats, reassuring them that he favors a "mixed economy." To the party faithful, however, he puts forth a harsher anti-Western, sometimes anti-Semitic message...
...CANDIDATES] Boris Yeltsin, President Gennadi Zyuganov, Communist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Ultranationalist Grigori Yavlinsky, Reformist...
...everyone is so sanguine. Many Russians and Western experts are deeply concerned that regardless of what he says, Yeltsin may have lost his taste for transforming the economy and may even reverse some of the advances he has made. An even graver worry is that Communist Party chief Gennadi Zyuganov will win the election and roll the economy back to state-controlled socialism. "The people who said the reforms could never be reversed are coming up short," says Marshall Goldman, associate director of the Harvard Russian Research Center. "At the moment, everyone's in a race...
...weeks ago, when Communist Party chief Gennadi Zyuganov launched his campaign for the presidency, Burns made this comment to Time: "I think that Zyuganov is fooling the Russian people. His economics are fake. They would send Russia down the tubes to ruin." Burns has made a number of similar statements about Zyuganov, and has praised Boris Yeltsin. Yet he also claims that the State Department is not taking sides in the Russian presidential campaign. Shortly after making the "down the tubes" comment, Burns said, "You are not going to see us get involved in this election. It would be stupid...
...strongest challenge to the reformers comes from a restructured Communist Party that rose from oblivion to win the most votes in the Dec. 17 elections for the Duma, the national parliament. Although its 22% showing was not enough to control the Duma, it gave the party and its leader, Gennadi Zyuganov, a strong starting point in the race for the presidency--which is the real center of power in post-Soviet Russia...