* RUSSIA IS OUR HOME-FORWARD RUSSIA:

Former PM Viktor Chernomyrdin has headed ROH from its creation as the pro-Yeltsin “party of power” in 1994, but the young parliamentary leader Vladimir Ryzhkov may be the party’s most appealing personality. Dmitri Ayatskov, governor of Saratov, and former Finance Minister Boris Fedorov are innovative thinkers and administrators.