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Article: From mayor's nest to the Kremlin: Russia. (possible presidential candidate Yuri Luzhkov, currently mayor of Moscow, has strong political credentials as well as strong foreign relations ideas)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- April 11, 1998
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MOSCOW
Yuri Luzhkov, Moscow's mayor, now leads the race for Russia's presidency
A SHORT temper, a sharp tongue and an obsession with mundane detail have made Yuri Luzhkov a highly effective mayor of Moscow. But are those the qualities most needed in a president of Russia? Russians may soon have a chance to find out. It is touch and go whether the ailing incumbent, Boris Yeltsin, will reach the end of his term in 2000. And whereas Mr Luzhkov still refuses to acknowledge himself as a presidential candidate, he ranks among the top two or three by anybody else's reckoning. His rivals are the Communist Party boss, Gennady Zyuganov; and Alexander Lebed, a ...
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