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Yeltsin at first said he would challenge the 50% rule but later decided against conducting a parallel referendum with more favorable questions. Meanwhile, Vyacheslav Kostikov, spokesman for Yeltsin, warned that Congress might try yet again to impeach Yeltsin before the referendum...
Thus the question of who really rules Russia remains unresolved. The Congress is in no position to take over management of the government's daily affairs, and the President is unlikely to accept such humiliating defeat. The Congress's actions, warned his press secretary, Vyacheslav Kostikov, indicate a "slide back to Soviet communist power." That warning was not entirely verbiage, since most of the Congress Deputies were originally bureaucrats from the Communist Party, trade-union functionaries and directors of state factories and collective farms. They are opposed to basic reform partly out of nostalgia for the old days and partly...