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...question now is whether Yeltsin has the physical and mental stamina to keep that high-risk approach going. "Yeltsin is always capable of something unexpected," says Anatoli Sobchak, the former mayor of St. Petersburg. "He seems to have lost all his strength and then he recuperates." But each recuperation appears to exact a heavier toll, and bouts of hyperactivity are followed by longer and longer periods of inaction and illness. That is no long-term prescription for keeping control of a country as unruly as Russia today...
...PETERSBURG NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD, VIRGINIA For the first time in 24 years, a fee will be charged for the living-history program. Expect to see more ravens and raccoons around unemptied garbage cans...
...label-design company they started at a truck depot. Today his firm, Vidus, employs 40 people who design and sell labels for products from all over Russia. Revenues exceed $4.5 million a year, which makes Mansky, 28, one of Russia's new rich: he zips around St. Petersburg in a slick red Mazda and vacations with his wife in France and Spain. "If the Communists come to power--well, if that happens, it happens," he says with a shrug. "I am not stashing money or getting ready to flee. Of course I will vote, but there is not much choice...
...half years later, with the shops well stocked and the streets clean, a fit and rested President assumed that a similar reception awaited him--and with it the chance to demonstrate his appeal beyond the reform-minded enclaves of Moscow and St. Petersburg. Instead Yeltsin was clobbered. From his first stop until his last, the cries went up--from an old woman wagging her finger in the President's face: "Yes, there's food in the stores, but who can afford it?"; from a young factory worker: "Where are our salaries?"; from a middle-aged electrician: "Our savings are worthless...
...success in those mock Cabinets shows, Zyuganov's politics are malleable. He is, at once, red enough for old-style Communists and white enough for hard-line nationalists. At a late-April meeting with the candidate in the town of Sosnovy Bor, due west of St. Petersburg, an old man with damp eyes and a Soviet-flag pin stuck in his lapel reverently described Zyuganov as ''one of the best leaders our party has ever had." At a May Day rally in Moscow, the heads of various nationalist movements praised Zyuganov as someone who shares their anti-Western, often anti...