EX-BORDER SERVICE CHIEF TO SET UP NEW POLITICAL MOVEMENT.

State Duma deputy General Andrei Nikolaev, former chief of Russia’s Border Service, plans to set up a new political movement called “The Union of People’s Power and Labor.” Nikolaev told journalists this week that his will be a center-left movement, favoring a market economy with strong state intervention. He said the movement will join forces with other political parties and movements to stand candidates in the 1999 State Duma elections. (Russian agencies, June 18) Some commentators have seen Nikolaev as a possible presidential contender in 2004.

MAGOMEDOV SEEKS SECOND TERM IN DAGESTAN.