Word: shevtsova
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Such tussles are becoming increasingly frequent, partly because parliament is increasingly fractious. The legislators, elected in March 1990, once divided into two main groups: Communists and their opponents. They have now splintered into at least 14 registered factions, plus any number of single- issue dissidents. Lilia Shevtsova, a professor at Moscow's Institute of International Economic and Political Studies, calls many of the country's proliferating political organizations "sofa parties" because "all the members of one party can sit on one sofa...