FORMER SOVIET PREMIER TO HEAD OPPOSITION LIST.

Former Sovietprime minister Nikolai Ryzhkov will lead the nationalist opposition,Russian People’s Union, in the December Duma elections, Itar-Tassreported July 19. Ryzhkov said that his bloc called "Powerto the People" would like to unite "all patriotic forces"and that it would be happy to cooperate with Aleksandr Lebed.He said his movement already has the support of such nationalistleaders as Sergei Baburin, Yuri Vlasov, and Gen. Valentin Varennikovas well as Cossack and women’s "patriotic" groups.

New Publication to Track Political Extremists.