DEMOCRATIC DIVISIONS SEEN HELPING “PARTY OF POWER.”

The failureof democratic political groups to unite may allow PrimeMinister Chernomyrdin’s “Russia is Our Home” bloc to win theparliamentary elections, political observer Aleksei Kiva wrotein the May 23 Kommersant-daily. More to the point, thedemocrats may themselves lose many of the seats they now holdbecause of a widespread sense that they cannot get organized.

Extreme Right Organizes In The Army.