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...growing weary of Zhirinovsky. Although he can count on enough support from his solid following among the lumpen proletariat to remain a disturbing force in the new parliament, he will have to share the protest vote that brought him to power in 1993 with Lebed, former Vice President Alexander Rutskoi and a host of other patriotic-minded candidates who did not--or could not--run in the last elections. GENNADI ZYUGANOV Riding a Wave of Nostalgia...
...commission also rejected the nationalist Derzhava movement of former Vice President Alexander Rutskoi for more flagrant infractions of the same rule that Yabloko violated. Both parties were subsequently reinstated by a ruling of the Russian Supreme Court, but the scandal underscored just how shaky the legal foundation was for Russia's new electoral system. It also showed how, in the absence of clear signals from the top, loyal servants of the President's, like commission chairman Nikolai Ryabov, could quickly move to assert their own personal authority by an overzealous interpretation of the rules...
...combat potential. This leader might be Zhirinovsky or General Alexander Lebed, commander of the 14th Army in Trans-Dniestr, who is popular for his role in stopping a bloody war there and for his outspoken criticism of military corruption. Or it could be former Vice President Alexander Rutskoi, a onetime combat pilot famous for his exploits in Afghanistan, who has always been more popular than Yeltsin among the military...
Most Russians were not buying Mavrodi's antigovernment argument: even such opponents of President Boris Yeltsin as Communist Party leader Gennadi Zugyanov and aspiring presidential candidate Alexander Rutskoi remained silent about the debacle and the government's role. The MMM fiasco has already prodded the government into more energetic regulation of the country's unfettered capital markets, but how effective it will be is anyone's guess. The Cabinet announced it would direct the Finance Ministry to move toward establishing regulatory procedures, but that responsibility is shared with the central bank and the State Property Committee. It is far from...
...author's note to Beyond Peace, Nixon recalls that he told former Russian Vice President Alexander Rutskoi that politics, like war, could be hell. When Rutskoi was released from prison in February, where he had been held following his failed putsch against Boris Yeltsin, Nixon thought perhaps Rutskoi had learned "that, for some, there can be life after hell...