CAMPAIGN OFFICIAL NOTES PARALLELS BETWEEN ZYUGANOV AND YELTSIN POLICIES.

Aleksei Podberyozkin, deputy chairman of Communist party leader Gennady Zyuganov’s presidential campaign and also deputy chairman of the Duma International Affairs Committee, told a briefing yesterday that Zyuganov and his team would seek "the reestablishment of the single union state" if the Communists win Russia’s upcoming presidential election. The form of that state would be "a voluntary union of sovereign peoples" of the former USSR. Regarding the means for achieving that goal, Podberyozkin said that "any military arguments or even political pressures are out of the question." Russian Communists would adopt mechanisms inspired by the European Union and the British Commonwealth, Podberyozkin assured his audience.

Podberyozkin stressed that Zyuganov’s foreign policy "almost coincides with the Russian president’s," and that the parallelism demonstrates that "the prevalence of national state interests in the both the opposition’s and the government’s approaches." (Interfax, April 16)

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