JUSTICE MINISTRY RULES CHERNOMYRDIN BLOC’S ACTIVITIES ARE LEGAL.

In a move that surprised no one, the Russian justice ministry said that the efforts by Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin’s “Russia is Our Home” bloc to organize party sections in various workplaces do not violate a 1992 law prohibiting such activities, Moscow radio reported June 7. The 1992 law was passed to prevent the reemergence of a Communist Party-type system in Russia. Duma deputies have said they will ask the courts to rule on what Chernomyrdin’s electoral group is doing.

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