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MOSCOW: After months of worldwide concern that the largest country in the world could return to Communist rule, the early returns indicate that Boris Yeltsin has won Russia's presidential runoff election. With some 30 percent of the vote has been counted, the incumbent had a strong lead of 54 percent of the vote to Communist challenger Gennady Zyuganov's 40 percent. "It would have been a disaster for all concerned had the Russians elected Zyuganov. But they really voted for the lesser of two evils," says TIME's Bruce Nelan. For Yeltsin, the chief problem is his rapidly failing...
MOSCOW: On the eve of the Russian presidential runoff elections, all was supposed to be quiet, persuant to a 24-hour moratorium on campaigning. But the Communists just couldn't quit. On Tuesday, campaign officials for Communist leader Gennadi Zyuganov accused Russian Public Television of illegally censoring a political advertisement. While Zyuganov's campaign manager Valentin Kuptsov charged that omitting the five-minute advertisement was a serious breach of law, spokesmen for the TV channel said the ad was scrapped because it contained "unproven allegations" about election fraud and wasn't paid for. The Central Election Commission is expected...
...course, Lebed's appointment to the Yeltsin team was an election move. Yeltsin, who took 35% of the vote last week, faces a runoff on July 3 against Communist Party leader Gennadi Zyuganov, who received 32%. If Yeltsin can pull in most of the 14.7% Lebed collected, plus a few more percentage points from the seven other defeated candidates, he should be able to engineer a victory. Zyuganov has been campaigning for five months, still unable to boost the Communists' vote total above the one-third mark they received in the parliamentary elections last December. But the sudden alliance with...
...they come out on top as expected, Yeltsin and Zyuganov will go on to the runoff, probably on July 7 or July 14. Analysts will be watching the size of the turnout in the first round for indicators of the final result. The way they calculate it, a large total vote helps Yeltsin because Zyuganov's base among the hard-core disgruntled is thought to level off at 25%. In Round 2 of the campaign, the leaders will scramble to pick up supporters from the nine failed candidates. Yeltsin is expected to win backers from Yavlinsky, Lebed and Fyodorov, while...
MOSCOW: As Boris Yeltsin and Communist leader Gennadi Zyuganov prepare for a runoff election that could be held as early as June 30 to determine who will be the next president of Russia, both sides are cozying up to surprise third place finisher Alexander Lebed. After taking a strong 15 percent of the vote in Sunday's election, the retired general finds himself an important player in the run-off election. "Lebed entered the race late," says TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich. "But he has emerged as a national political leader and has staked a serious claim on the Russian political...