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...proposes is a serious issue for Russian presidential candidates as the election draws near. Yeltsin and Zyuganov are neck and neck in the polls, and an endorsement from one of the other challengers might put Yeltsin over the top. "Zhirinovsky is controlled by Yeltsin's camp," says TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich. "They are holding his KGB file over his head. As a result, Yeltsin can count on Zhirinovsky to come out with a tough anti-communist stance. Yeltsin, who cannot condemn Zyuganov too strongly at the risk of alienating voters, is using Zhirinovsky to remind voters that Communism...
...dead, while the news agency Interfax insisted that it was Yardarbiyev's nephew who perished in an attack. There has as yet been no confirmation of Yandarbiyev's death. "One version of the story has Yandarbiyev killed in a shootout between rival Chechen rebel groups," reports TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich. "What is clear is that the rebels -->