LEBED FAVORED, YELTSIN SPURNED BY RUSSIAN CITIZENS IN MOLDOVA.

Aleksandr Lebed, who commanded Russia’s 14th Army in Moldova from 1992-1995, won 45 percent of the votes cast by Russian citizens resident in Moldova. Communist Gennady Zyuganov was second with 36 percent, while President Boris Yeltsin garnered only 11 percent of the total. The turnout was high with 18,000 out of nearly 30,000 Russian citizens casting ballots. (Basapress, Flux, June 17) Yeltsin’s poor score suggests that the Russian military command in Moldova failed in its task to deliver the 7,000-strong military vote to Yeltsin. The commander, Lt. General Valery Yevnevich, is a personal adversary of Lebed.

Georgia: Ambivalent Support for Yeltsin.