Word: kaluga
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Standing in front of a huge bust of Vladimir Lenin, Communist Party leader Zyuganov, 51, sounds very much like the teacher he once was as he cites fact and figure on Russia's economic and social woes at a campaign rally in the rural Russian city of Kaluga. The situation in Russia, he says, is "a catastrophe worse than the invasions of the Tatars, Napoleon and Hitler combined." The mostly over-50 crowd, packed into the "culture palace" of a factory, constantly interrupts Zyuganov with applause, especially when he takes a gibe at Yeltsin and wonders out loud...
...city of Kaluga, residents also felt that on balance Yeltsin was better than parliament, but he has another opponent: apathy. "We're talking about the provinces here," said Igor Babichev, editor of a business weekly. "If the weather is good on election day, people will be out in the countryside collecting potatoes." And quite a few Russians probably agreed with 21-year-old Natasha Leshiner, a sales assistant, who believed, "We should do away with the whole government. We have the same bureaucrats we had in the past...