SELEZNEV REFUSES TO HAND IN PARTY CARD.

During yesterday’s Duma session, speaker Gennady Seleznev was challenged to hand in his Communist party card and become non-affiliated like his predecessor Ivan Rybkin. Seleznev refused, later telling an audience he had made the mistake of leaving the party in 1991 and would never do it again. Seleznev’s assertions of loyalty to the party appear to be at odds with his pledge to remain above party politics. (5)

Privatization Process May be Changed.