Word: vladimir
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...Communist Party so thoroughly vanquished its rivals in parliamentary elections last month. Voters cast two ballots, one for a party and one for a candidate in their local districts. Appealing to impoverished pensioners and others for whom reform has failed, the Communists took 22% of the party-preference vote; Vladimir Zhirinovsky's ultranationalist Liberal Democratic Party came in a surprising second, with only 11%, about half its 1993 level. Altogether, the Communists were allocated 157 of the Duma's 450 seats; Our Home Is Russia, the party supporting President Boris Yeltsin, forms the next largest bloc, with only 55 seats...
...impassioned last minute plea to the Russian people to stay the course with his market and democratic reforms rather than turn to Communists and right-wing nationalists, Russians overwhelmingly chose those candidates in Sunday's parliamentary elections. The Communists were the big winners, with 22 percent of the vote. Vladimir Zhirinovsky's nationalist party took a surprisingly strong second place, winning 11.2 percent of the votes with just under half the total reported. In the face of the surprisingly high voter turnout of 65 percent, a chastened Yeltsin spokesman said that the vote may cause the government to moderate...
...reveals his ignorance of the potentially volatile situation surrounding the upcoming elections within Russia. With the ascension of ex-communist hard-liners a likely possibility, renewal of the classical conflict involving an American presence in Russia's backdoor shall surely emerge as a significant component of leaders such as Vladimir Zhirinovsky's platform. Our presence in the Balkans may very well refreeze the Cold...
...VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY Past His Peak...
Standing in front of a huge bust of Vladimir Lenin, Communist Party leader Zyuganov, 51, sounds very much like the teacher he once was as he cites fact and figure on Russia's economic and social woes at a campaign rally in the rural Russian city of Kaluga. The situation in Russia, he says, is "a catastrophe worse than the invasions of the Tatars, Napoleon and Hitler combined." The mostly over-50 crowd, packed into the "culture palace" of a factory, constantly interrupts Zyuganov with applause, especially when he takes a gibe at Yeltsin and wonders out loud...