ZHIRINOVSKY CALLS FOR SANCTIONS AGAINST REPUBLICS WHICH MISTREAT RUSSIANS.

Russian nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky said that Moscow must impose “tough” economic sanctions against any former Soviet republic that mistreats ethnic Russians, Sokol Zhirinovskogo (no. 7) reported. Zhirinovsky’s statement–which echoes a recent remark by Yeltsin’s citizenship advisor Abulakh Mikitayev–came in an address to the military and the military industrial complex. Zhirinovsky told these groups that Russia needs a strong army and must rearm. In another speech reported in Pravda Zhirinovskogo ( no. 3), Zhirinovsky said that he wanted to replace all ethnically-based units in the Russian Federation with non-ethnically defined ones–another idea that the Yeltsin government reportedly is considering.

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