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MOSCOW: Russian President Boris Yeltsin's campaign has turned to scare tactics as the election nears. On Thursday, Yeltsin's top political aide warned that Gennadi Zyuganov, the Communist Party leader and leading presidential candidate, was plotting to steal the election by voter fraud and threatening a civil war. Although anti-Communist scare tactics have long been a feature of the election campaign, this attack was by far the most incendiary. "Yeltsin's team is trying to paint the race as a black and white contest, even though there are 11 candidates in the first round pool," says Moscow correspondent...
MOSCOW: As the Russian presidential campaign enters the home stretch, President Boris Yeltsin is stepping up his reelection effort. Wednesday brought a plan to end the 17-month conflict in Chechnya along with praise and promises of more financial backing for the Russian army. Yeltsin proposes a Chechen republic still under Russian dominion, but with control over its own natural resources and finances. "The Chechens probably won't like this first proposal," reports TIME Moscow correspondent Sally Donnelly, "since they have been fighting all this time to establish an independent republic. But at least the Russians are starting to talk...
MOSCOW: As the Russian presidential campaign enters the home stretch, President Boris Yeltsin is stepping up his reelection effort. Wednesday brought a plan to end the 17-month conflict in Chechnya along with praise and promises of more financial backing for the Russian army. Yeltsin proposes a Chechen republic still under Russian dominion, but with control over its own natural resources and finances. "The Chechens probably won't like this first proposal," reports TIME Moscow correspondent Sally Donnelly, "since they have been fighting all this time to establish an independent republic. But at least the Russians are starting to talk...
While Bill Clinton and Bob Dole jockey for position in the November election, another contest is much closer and perhaps even more significant. In a few weeks, Gennadi Zyuganov and Boris Yeltsin will face off in the second presidential election ever held in Russia. The choice is so stark, and the result so important, that we decided to cover the campaign as thoroughly as we would an American presidential race...
...impressed with how willing the people were to talk openly about the issues and the candidates," says TIME's chief political correspondent, MICHAEL KRAMER. For two weeks, Kramer and veteran Moscow reporter YURI ZARAKHOVICH followed Yeltsin around the country while Washington correspondent JAMES CARNEY, returning to his old posting in Russia, tracked Zyuganov. Back in Moscow, correspondent SALLY DONNELLY and stringer CONSTANCE RICHARDS filed background reports, picture editor MARK RYKOFF directed a team of 10 photographers and Polish journalist RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI, a longtime Soviet watcher, returned to a much changed Moscow to take the city's pulse. Coordinating operations...