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...great shift in the vote to opponents of Kremlin economic policies, such as the communists or the nationalists, could mark the beginning of the end of the reformist cycle that started after Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in 1985. The powers of the parliament have been so watered down in the new constitution that it is virtually impossible for Deputies to remove Yeltsin from office. But a solid Yeltsin opposition with a majority in the new parliament could obstruct government-reform policies. The result would be a return to the debilitating power struggle that triggered Yeltsin's dramatic 1993 showdown...
...knows that the current campaign is a dress rehearsal for next year's vote. At least five candidates from Russia's leading parties are considered strong presidential contenders. Here are the men who, after the ballots are tallied, will probably emerge as key combatants in the battle for the Kremlin...
...bright, tricolor billboards all across Moscow, Chernomyrdin earnestly appeals to voters to cast their ballots for Our Home Is Russia, the political movement he founded last April in a bid to create a strong centrist party loyal to the Kremlin. IF YOUR HOME IS DEAR TO YOU, the slogan reads...
Working at the highest levels of the Soviet government before his appointment as ambassador, Dobrynin had exposure to many of the Kremlin's murkier minds, like Khrushchev and Brezhev. His clear discussion of their decisions and their ways of handling power yields an insight that could only have come from experience...
Prime Minister Doku Zavgayev, 55, a former communist apparatchik installed by the Kremlin on Nov. 1, was being driven in a heavily guarded motorcade through the ruined capital of Grozny when his car was rocked by two powerful bomb blasts, then sprayed with automatic-weapons fire. Zavgayev and five others were only slightly wounded. It was another demonstration, if any more were needed, that despite Russia's overwhelming military power in the tattered Caucasian republic, the Kremlin is failing in its campaign to impose a peace settlement on the rebels...