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Article: RUSSIA: VICTORY PROMPTS FEARS OF MORE REGIONS TURNING RED.(comeback of Communist Party)(Brief Article)
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- August 9, 2001
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Khodyrev's victory immediately triggered a flurry of articles in the mainstream media questioning whether the Communist Party was on the road to staging a comeback in Russia nationwide. Communist Party leader Gennadii Zyuganov was, of course, happy to agree, telling reporters in Moscow on 31 July that the party considers the Nizhnii ballot a "benchmark election," and the party attaches special significance to the upcoming elections in Tula, Irkutsk, and Rostov oblasts, and the republics of North Ossetia and Sakha (Yakutia). "Izvestiya" on the same day claimed that 45 of Russia's 89 federation subjects are controlled by Communists: "In 37 regions, the KPRF ...