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Communist parties were banned in 1991, so Zyuganov joined several nationalist organizations and participated in a drive against Yeltsin, the President of Russia. When the ban was lifted in 1992, Zyuganov re-created his party and became chairman of its Central Committee, the post he still holds. He was an early supporter of the 1993 coup against Yeltsin, although he eventually disavowed violence. Today he leads a party of more than 500,000 members and a political machine with branches in every region of Russia...
Last week Yeltsin returned to work at the Kremlin, strolling around its snowy courtyards in his first public appearance since a heart ailment felled him two months ago. In a staged event he chatted jovially with Russian tourists and journalists and told them he would not allow the Communists to end his reform program...
...Communist Party candidate, whether it is Zyuganov or someone else he decides to put forward. But who will be the other contender in the runoff? Unless the government and the splintered reform forces manage to unite in support of a single candidate, the other entry might not be Yeltsin or any other reformer. It could be the man whose party was the second favorite among Russian voters last month: Zhirinovsky...
...YELTSIN ENDS "SOJOURN...
Russian President Boris Yeltsin ended what his presidential news service called a "sojourn in a sanatorium" and returned to the Kremlin after two months of treatment and rest for acute coronary ischemia (restricted blood flow to the heart). Prior to his public appearance in the Kremlin, Yeltsin quickly met with Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin to map out potential strategies to deal with the strong showing of the Communist Party in the Dec. 17 parliamentary elections...