KOVALEV: THE NATIONALISTS ARE ALREADY IN THE KREMLIN.

Speaking in Copenhagen June 2, Russian human rights activist Sergei Kovalev said that Chechnya has cost Yeltsin his support among the country’s democrats, and has led him to rely on the nationalists instead, various Western papers reported. The big risk for Russia now, Kovalev said, is not a coup from the right or left but rather a gradual drift toward extreme nationalism. “The right-wing nationalists don’t need a coup. They are already in power,” Kovalev concluded. The same day, the Danish defense ministry announced that because of Chechnya it would cancel a planned visit by its officers to Saint Petersburg.

Two New Electoral Blocs.