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...Communist Party's standard-bearer in the presidential race is Gennadi Zyuganov, a smooth customer and an opponent of Boris Yeltsin's in the last days of the U.S.S.R. As observers both Russian and foreign point out, Zyuganov can preach it round or flat. He sounds like a social democrat when he meets with Western businessmen and diplomats, reassuring them that he favors a "mixed economy." To the party faithful, however, he puts forth a harsher anti-Western, sometimes anti-Semitic message...
...Zyuganov enjoys a considerable lead in the polls over President Yeltsin and the two other leading candidates, Grigori Yavlinsky and Vladimir Zhirinovsky. In his effort to build a coalition that could swell the ranks of communist voters to the more than 50% he needs to avoid a run-off in the presidential vote, Zyuganov has cut back on Marxist verbiage, and is making an effort to include all groups that could help him defeat Yeltsin. Yet a large percentage of the nation's voters are profoundly suspicious, fearing that Zyuganov's talk of popular fronts and his promises to play...
...CANDIDATES] Boris Yeltsin, President Gennadi Zyuganov, Communist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Ultranationalist Grigori Yavlinsky, Reformist...
...weeks ago, when Communist Party chief Gennadi Zyuganov launched his campaign for the presidency, Burns made this comment to Time: "I think that Zyuganov is fooling the Russian people. His economics are fake. They would send Russia down the tubes to ruin." Burns has made a number of similar statements about Zyuganov, and has praised Boris Yeltsin. Yet he also claims that the State Department is not taking sides in the Russian presidential campaign. Shortly after making the "down the tubes" comment, Burns said, "You are not going to see us get involved in this election. It would be stupid...
...OUTLOOK] With Yeltsin mired in Chechnya and backpedaling on economic reforms, Zyuganov and his communists appear poised for a spectacular comeback...