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Article: Moscow mayor eyes Kremlin.(Yuri Luzhkov)
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- February 1, 1999
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Yuri Luzhkov may not be "the most powerful mayor on earth" as Russian television likes to call him, but he certainly has an uncanny sense of timing. His announcement that he was forming a new moderate and left-of-center political party called "Fatherland" came in the week that President Boris Yeltsin went back into the hospital with pneumonia and as Russia went into political shock over the assassination of the popular human rights activist and politician Galina Starovoitova.
Perhaps it takes times like these to make the bullet-headed Luzhkov sound like a democrat. Nobody has ever questioned his efficiency as a city boss. Moscow is a Russian city that works. It ...