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...same team, the feisty former general called Russia's president a "minus," and managed to alienate nearly every member of Yeltsin's adminstration. Even the communist-dominated Duma, usually no friend to Yeltsin, cheered Lebed's dismissal. "It should have happened a month ago," said Communist leader Gennadi Zyuganov. But now that it has, Zyuganov and Yeltsin are equally threatened politically by Lebed. The former paratrooper's pragmatic platform of crime fighting, plain speaking and his undiluted conviction that Russia has a place as a great power make him popular with the electorate. Now that Lebed...
...would clearly like to be Prime Minister in the post-Yeltsin era. No single member of the triad can claim supremacy over the others, and none trusts his two colleagues. Watching, and ready to join in when the opportunity arises, are two more potential contenders. Communist leader Gennadi Zyuganov would welcome a second crack at the presidency; meanwhile, Chernomyrdin and other senior figures are certain that Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov has presidential ambitions...
...some cost to Yeltsin's chances of recovery, they suppressed news of his ill health long enough for the country to enter what is by Russian standards something akin to political normality. Six months ago, after all, the favorites to succeed Yeltsin were people like Communist Party leader Gennadi Zyuganov or nationalist extremist Vladimir Zhirinovsky. The main contenders now, Chernomyrdin and Lebed, or perhaps Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov, are less menacing to Russia's post-communist ruling class...
...what's next? The direction of Russia's future development depends on whether the two groups within the Establishment manage to coexist peacefully. One group is made up of people who were able to get rich during Yeltsin's rule. The other group, mainly supporters of communist Gennadi Zyuganov, consists of former members of the nomenklatura who were left out when the country's wealth was divided. Their main purpose and political motivation are the redistribution of the country's wealth so that they too can get rich. Whether it is communism that achieves that goal or something else, they...
...GENNADI ZYUGANOV Sourly concedes election, losing by wide margin to Yeltsin in runoff vote for Russia's presidency...