Word: grigoris
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...police and intelligence agents for years. To find out why, Gwynne and Gurwin gathered information from sources in the U.S., the Middle East, Russia and other European nations. "We went to extraordinary lengths to find out everything we could," says Gurwin. One of the best sources was Nordex president Grigori Loutchansky, says Gwynne, "because he's anxious to clear his name...
...reach the second round, and to win, Yeltsin must unite the democratic opposition to Zyuganov, or at least dull its threat to his own candidacy. One often hears of an imminent deal in which Yeltsin's leading non-Communist opponents, Grigori Yavlinsky and Alexander Lebed, will drop their campaigns. Last week, though, Yeltsin and Yavlinsky had a public spat as talks about joining forces hit a bump. "He wants too much," said Yeltsin, at first referring to Yavlinsky's demands that he fire much of his Cabinet, but later the President decided he could "accept" many of them...
Zyuganov enjoys a considerable lead in the polls over President Yeltsin and the two other leading candidates, Grigori Yavlinsky and Vladimir Zhirinovsky. In his effort to build a coalition that could swell the ranks of communist voters to the more than 50% he needs to avoid a run-off in the presidential vote, Zyuganov has cut back on Marxist verbiage, and is making an effort to include all groups that could help him defeat Yeltsin. Yet a large percentage of the nation's voters are profoundly suspicious, fearing that Zyuganov's talk of popular fronts and his promises to play...
...CANDIDATES] Boris Yeltsin, President Gennadi Zyuganov, Communist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Ultranationalist Grigori Yavlinsky, Reformist...
...Administration has made no secret of whom it wants to see win: Yeltsin or one of the other liberal candidates, such as reformist politician Grigori Yavlinsky. But is the White House working to promote these candidates? Well, er..."What we will say to the Russian people repeatedly is not that you should vote for this candidate or that candidate," explains Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott. "That's their business. What we can do is say, 'Here is what the U.S. believes in; here is what the U.S. stands for; here is the kind of world that we hope Russia...