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MOSCOW: Interrupting his efforts to end the 20-month old civil war in Chechnya, Russian security chief Alexander Lebed returned to Moscow on Monday to brief Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin on his progress. Although the Lebed negotiated cease-fire remains tenuous but intact, winning the truce may have been the easy part. The backdrop to the meeting between the two men is the criticism Lebed has absorbed in recent days from President Boris Yeltsin and other government officials. A meeting with Chernomyrdin is unlikely to help Lebed's cause; the Prime Minster already distrusts Lebed as an ambitious newcomer. While...
...finally conceded defeat. Although Zyuganov complained about the "ruinous cost" of Yeltsin's election campaign, which saw the country blanketed in pro-Yeltsin media coverage and festooned with Yeltsin banners, he held out the promise of cooperation, provided the Communists were offered significant posts in the government. Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin even hinted that the Communists might capture a few cabinet-level positions. "There is a general release of tension, and a feeling of hope after an unusually tense campaign season," says Quinn-Judge. The tension has not vanished from Yeltsin's own camp, however. Alexander Lebed, recruited by Yeltsin...
...helped Zyuganov, who has a stronger, more dedicated pool of supporters. Even Yeltsin's own advisers feared that Zyuganov could win if less than 60 percent of Russia's 106 million voters showed up at the polls. But Yeltsin was not without last minute support: Early Wednesday, Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin made a radio appeal to voters, as did Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II and economic reformer Yegor Gaidar -->