PARLIAMENTARIAN CONTINUES TO PRESS FOR YELTSIN’S REMOVAL.

Communist deputy Viktor Ilyukhin has appealed to the Duma Council to schedule a debate on the possibility of ousting Yeltsin from office on health grounds (Interfax, January 20) Ilyukhin’s earlier effort to get the Russian parliament to debate this issue failed when the Duma’s lawyers advised that there were no constitutional grounds for such a move. A recent poll of Moscow residents found that 82 percent of those questioned said they would not have voted for Yeltsin as president had they been fully informed about the state of his health. (The Economist, January 18)

IMF Reported Satisfied with Russia’s Economic Progress.