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Article: Putin won Russian vote
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- April 2, 2000
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Putin won Russian vote, but no mandate
Experts say for each citizen who picked him, two opted against new
president
By MAURA REYNOLDS
Los Angeles Times
Sunday, April 2, 2000
Moscow -- It looked like a big victory. But for Russia's new
president, Vladimir V. Putin, it may not be big enough.
Putin defeated his nearest rival, Communist Party candidate
Gennady A. Zyuganov, by an ample margin of 23 percentage points in
last Sunday's presidential election. Most candidates would consider
that an impressive victory. But in Russia, it's nearly a loss.
For Putin, "this cannot be seen as any kind of triumphant
"mandate,' " said Andrei Cherkizov, a commentator for Echo Moscow
radio.
The first reason is ...