A BLOC IN SEARCH OF A NAME.

Duma speaker Ivan Rybkin’sleft-center electoral bloc is a no-name operation in two ways.With few exceptions, none of its participants are well-known tothe country–Agrarian leader Mikhail Lapshin denied Rybkin’s claimsthat the agricultural party would cooperate with Rybkin’s bloc–andthe bloc itself does not yet have a name for itself, Segodnyareported July 25. One possible name, which Rybkin himselfhas not ruled out, is the Union of Socialist Justice in Russia.Its Russian initials are the same as the ones for the "USSR."

Problems with Electoral Districts Could Be Significant.