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That position repelled some of the small parties that have been springing up and split others. Nikolai Travkin, head of the Democratic Party of Russia, withdrew promised support; he is under fire from dissenters who accuse him of being -- to borrow an old American term -- soft on communism. They plan to hold a founding congress of yet another new party, an oddly named Liberal- Conservative Union, in late September. This autumn seems likely to witness the birth not of a unified but of a still further splintered opposition...
...year ago last week, all Soviet musicians, actors and ballet dancers halted their performances for five minutes to protest what Culture Minister Nikolai Gubenko called the "tragic" state of Soviet culture. In the year since then, nothing has greatly changed or improved...
Yeltsin needs more than just positive reporting to win the presidency. Early last week, pro-Communist Party newspapers claimed that Yeltsin's support had slid to 44% and chief rival Nikolai Ryzhkov's had risen to a surprisingly respectable 27%. The candidate seemed unfazed by the news. "These figures go up and down," he said in a nationally televised interview. Then, in characteristic fashion, he took off his suit jacket and conducted the rest of the session in his shirt sleeves...
...running for office. The Russian populist donned a white coat to inspect a high-tech laboratory, reviewed black-uniformed columns of sailors and promised the crew of the nuclear missile cruiser Kirov that he would do everything possible to improve their living conditions. Meanwhile, former Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov toured the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, lending a sympathetic ear to the problems of defense workers at a chemical factory. Back in Moscow Kremlin adviser Vadim Bakatin talked to cossack leaders about what he called his "common sense" politics...
Alksnis is a leader of Soyuz, as is a fellow colonel named Nikolai Petrushenko; Shevardnadze contemptuously described the pair last week as "boys . . . with colonels' shoulder stripes" (both are in their 40s; Shevardnadze is 62). They have talked wildly of such things as an alleged CIA plot to unite national-front movements from the Black to the Baltic Seas into a single anti-Soviet confederation. Soyuz claimed credit for Gorbachev's sacking of the country's liberal Interior Minister last month, and brazenly announced that the Foreign Minister was next on its hit list...