IF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS WERE HELD TODAY…

A recent poll conducted by thePublic Opinion Foundation found that 8% of Russians would vote for reformerGrigory Yavlinsky if presidential elections were held today, Kuranty reportedMay 16. 6% would vote for nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky and conservativeAleksandr Rutskoy, 4% would vote for General Aleksandr Lebed, but only 3%would vote for Boris Yeltsin. These polls also show that no candidate managedto exceed a single digit margin.

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