Topic: Gennady Zyuganov

The Left's Broken Clock

Moscow Times - 18 days ago
Someone once likened the political positions of the extreme left with a broken clock that never shows the right time. But as everyone knows, a...

Research indicates Putin has more than fifty percent support

Pravda, Russia - 18 days ago
The Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, has more than fifty percent of popular support for the presidential elections in March, notes a...

Putin's Party Scrapes By in Russian Parliamentary Election

U.S. News & World Report - 62 days ago
MOSCOW - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's party struggled to hang onto its majority in Russia's parliamentary election, results showed Monday...

Anathema or new hope? Russian Communists battle on

Reuters US Online Report World News - 82 days ago
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Twenty years after the Soviet Union collapsed, Gennady Zyuganov still has a small white bust of Lenin in his office and still says he wants to restore communist rule to Russia.Opinion polls show the veteran communist leader and his ...

Assessing the 1996 presidential elections in Russia

Helium - 465 days ago
Boris Yeltsin was elected as the first Russian President in June 1991 and was defending his position at the 1996 elections where he faced opposition from the communist Gennady Zyuganov. Boris Yeltsin had been a reformer in Russia turning the state towards ...