[lbo-talk] Lenin's heirs seek new lease of life in Russia vote

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Thu Nov 29 13:29:45 PST 2007


Reuters.com

Lenin's heirs seek new lease of life in Russia vote http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL2820294520071128?sp=true

Wed Nov 28, 2007

By Chris Baldwin

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Ninety years on from the Bolshevik revolution, Russia's Communist party will present the Kremlin with its strongest opposition challenge in Sunday's parliamentary election.

But it is a mark of the weakness of Russia's opposition that the Communists -- direct heirs to the party of Lenin and Stalin -- will at best win a quarter of the votes picked up by President Vladimir Putin's dominant United Russia party. http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL2820294520071128?sp=true



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