Word: zyuganov
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...Yeltsin knows better than anyone else, the centrist voters are key, and Kuptsov thinks Zyuganov has the edge in capturing them. "We should win, because more of those people are hurting economically than have managed to get rich," he says. Kuptsov sees the electoral math of a runoff like this: "Yavlinsky's support will split 60% for Yeltsin; we'll get 80% of Lebed's followers and 70% of Zhirinovsky's. The rest will be shared about equally." Agrees Andrei Kozyrev, Yeltsin's former Foreign Minister: "I'm afraid that might be exactly right...
...real key to Zyuganov's campaign, however, is not his careful positioning. Rather, it is the old-fashioned political organization he commands. Instructions from Kuptsov's office are rocketed daily to Communist cadres nationwide, and compliance is monitored carefully. "Our mode of work is what it has always been," says Kuptsov, "especially now, when we are frozen out of the media. We rely on word-of-mouth, on the kind of door-to-door hard work we've always been good at." As an example of the organization's brute strength and savvy, Kuptsov offers this: "When it came time...
Ivan Morozov, a Communist Party district leader in Yaroslavl, is a typical lieutenant in Zyuganov's ground war. "We work through factory people and teachers who are Communists," he says. "A lot of what we do is illegal. We're not supposed to push Zyuganov in the workplace or in schools, but we do it anyway. And we're training people to be at the polls to guard against Yeltsin's cheating...
MOSCOW: Ultranationalist Russian politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky predicted civil war if President Boris Yeltsin does not form an election coalition to keep Communist boss Gennady Zyuganov out of the Kremlin. Civil war would flare as early as the fall, Zhirinovsky said, if Zyuganov wins the presidency at the June 16 elections. Zhirinovksy added Yeltsin should offer posts to non-communist candidates in exchange for their support. The coalition Zhirinovsky 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...
...parties. Yeltsin said he would consider the plan, while Valentin Kuptsov, Communist Party campaign organizer, called the idea quite reasonable. "People are scared of a civil war," adds Zarakhovich. "That is the reason for all this talk of coalitions and national unity governments. No matter who wins, Yeltsin or Zyuganov, the loser will continue to oppose them, and in Russia, where the legal structures are not as solid as those in the United States, a civil war is possible." Chris McKenna