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...Zyuganov steadily climbed the rungs of the regional party apparatus in Oryol, becoming chief of ideology. He was also tapped by the party's Central Committee to go to Moscow. Instead of settling behind a desk, Zyuganov was sent around the Soviet Union to check on party work, an experience that he says put him in touch with the country's problems. In 1990 he broke with then party leader Mikhail Gorbachev and helped found a hard-line Communist Party based in Russia...
Like any good politician, Zyuganov knew how to take care of his constituents. Valeri Yermikov, a lanky sports trainer who played volleyball with Zyuganov at the institute, recalls how he later endured nine years on a waiting list for a telephone line at his new apartment. Finally he petitioned the state-run phone company but was rudely rebuffed. On that very day, Yermikov ran into Zyuganov, who at the time was Oryol's top party functionary. "Why do you look so sad?" Zyuganov inquired. Yermikov recounted his troubles. A few days later, without any explanation, his phone was installed...
...Zyuganov's career as an opposition leader has been characterized by caution and measured ambition. In July 1991 he and 11 others signed an open letter titled "A Word to the People," a blistering plea to save the Soviet Union from Gorbachev's reforms. The letter, which Prokhanov wrote, marked the birth of the union between Communists and nationalists that some fear will transform Zyuganov's coalition into a Russian version of Hitler's National Socialist party. It also foreshadowed the failed coup by party hard-liners the following month. Although he proudly calls himself a "leading ideologist...
...believe the Russian President will receive on election day. Since item Ye-1606-V began trading April 22, Yeltsin's projected total, registered in flashing orange lights on a big digital board, has jumped 10 points, to around 28.50--about equal to the quote for the Communist candidate, Gennadi Zyuganov. These speculators may care more about making a profit than about who wins and what it would mean for Russian democracy, but they at least have some stake in the outcome. Not all their countrymen feel that...
...democratic hope, but few Russians have any illusions now about Yeltsin, who is known, not quite accurately, as their first "popularly elected" President. To them he seems to have reverted to his former role as an imperious, provincial party boss. Indeed, many Russians view the contest between Yeltsin and Zyuganov not as a battle that pits reformist and reactionary forces against each other but as a squalid struggle between corrupt rival Communists...