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Article: RUSSIA: SPLIT IN COMMUNIST RANKS PREDICTED...(Union of Peoples of Russia to form and entice Communist Party members)(Brief Article)
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- April 30, 2000
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"Vremya Novostei" reported on 27 April that an inaugural congress of a new political association called the Union of Peoples of Russia will take place in the near future. A number of well known members of the Communist Party, such as State Duma Chairman Gennadii Seleznev, former First Deputy Prime Minister Yurii Maslyukov, and Communist Duma deputies Nikolai Ryzhkov and Anatolii Lukyanov are reportedly prepared to join the new grouping in part because of their dissatisfaction with the performance of Communist Party leader Gennadii ...