In April, Boris Yeltsin ordered State Duma Speaker Ivan Rybkin to form a left-center bloc. Despite his enormous efforts, Rybkin has yet to create an organization that rivals Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin’s right-center blocby ROBERT W. ORTTUNG RUSSIA’S MOST POWER-ful politicians believe that they would benefit considerably from creating two parties, rather than just one, to ensure their reelection in […]
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