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Zyuganov says the party "recognizes a mixed economy, has renounced atheism and is ready for serious political dialogue to persuade voters." That certainly does not sound like Marxist-Leninism. But there is more. The party's official program looks back longingly to Yuri Andropov, a former kgb chief and Soviet party head from 1982 to 1984, crediting him somehow with establishing "freedom of speech and freedom of political associations." As for Stalin's purges and Gulag and the corruption of the Brezhnev era, they were "mistakes" to be avoided in the future, Zyuganov says...
...Reported by Tamala M. Edwards/Washington and John Kohan and Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow
...Russian government announced that troops would begin patrolling railway stations as the country nears December 17 elections that boast a complicated lineup of 43 parties and 2,700 candidates. TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich reports that the government worries that Chechen rebels will try to disrupt the voting with bombings as part of their pledge to bring the Chechen war to Moscow. "The government made a very bad mistake, With Russian troops still in Chechnya, they decided to go ahead with not only national elections but also with local elections. The rebel fighters are not going to be very happy with...
Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich says that the election of a former communist does not mean a return to communism in Russia's former satellite: "Communists in Poland really are Social Democrats, and there is no room in their system for old-style communists. There is room in the Russian system, and Russian communists will do well in the December 17 parliamentary elections." Zarakhovich notes that Russia's communists are primarily nationalists; they appeal to a large number of people frustrated by Russia's decline in world prominence and the slow pace of the transition to a market economy. "Economic reform...
...that he "wasn't feeling too bad" and considered himself "out of danger." But the public-relations ploy did little to allay suspicions about the true state of the President's health. For many Russians, it recalled the early 1980s, when the successive deaths of Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko were all preceded by assurances from the Kremlin that they were in fine fettle...