Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- [Via Communist Internet... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] . . ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 12:27 AM Subject: Russia. KPRF control over half Russian regions From: "Jari-Pekka Raitamaa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 00:38:46 +0300 To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [luokkataistelu] Fw: [ISKRA] KPRF control over half Russian regions > Izvestia - July 31, 2001 > > LEFT GOVERNOR > From now on, the Communists will control more than half of Russian regions > Author: Pyotr Akopov > > [from WPS Monitoring Agency, www.wps.ru/e_index.html] > > GENNADY KHODYREV, A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY, HAS WON THE > GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION IN THE NIZHNY NOVGOROD REGION. THIS MEANS THAT FROM > NOW ON, THE COMMUNISTS WILL CONTROL MORE THAN HALF OF REGIONS OF THE RUSSIAN > FEDERATION. > > On Sunday, gubernatorial elections took place in the Nizhny > Novgorod and Irkutsk Regions. The results of the elections in both > regions demonstrate the main electoral tendencies of modern Russia. > Gennady Khodyrev, former senior secretary of the Gorky (the name of > Nizhny Novgorod in the Soviet era - translator's note) Regional > Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (KPSS), won the > election in Nizhny Novgorod. This is a symbolic event in one of the > most non-communist regions of the country. > It is also symbolic that on the eve of the tenth anniversary of > the events of August 1991 45 of 89 federation subjects are controlled > by the Communists in Russia. > In Nizhny Novgorod only 35% of voters came to the polling > stations. In the Irkutsk Region this figure was 37%. Flows of > compromising materials fear non-politicized voters, whereas > representatives of the Communist electorate have a distinct political > line and always take part in elections. > Khodyrev's victory would not have been a sensation in any other > region. This victory also looks strange against the background of the > ideological coloring given to the election by Presidential Envoy for > the Volga Federal District Sergei Kirienko. Over the past ten years > Nizhny Novgorod has been reputed to be the regional bulwark of > reforms. The Communists have been supported by fewer voters than in > the country on an average. A lot of foreign money has been invested in > the region. Boris Nemtsov and Sergei Kirienko, who come from Nizhny > Novgorod, have always been talking about democratic views of residents > of the city. > When Kirienko called the duel between Sklyarov and Khodyrev an > ideological competition, his colleagues asserted that it was not clear > whose viewpoints were more communistic. However, voters chose Khodyrev > as a representative of the Communist Party of the Russian federation > (CPRF). Currently, CPRF leader Gennady Zyuganov is announcing > contentedly that the decade of reforms has not given any fruits and > people support the Communists again. Formally he is right, since in 37 > regions the CPRF controls the executive branch and in eight regions > the legislative branch. > However, the number of Communist governors does not imply their > devotedness to the communist ideology. Only ten of them may be called > actual adherents to this ideology. Others have to fluctuate together > with the Communists' policy. It is noteworthy that Communist governors > actively participated in foundation of the pro-presidential movement > Unity. Khodyrev has also announced that he will suspend his CPRF > membership "for the sake of the better work." It is noteworthy that > Khodyrev has referred to President Vladimir Putin, "who does not lead > any political party and is thus an example to follow." It is clear > that it makes no difference for the Kremlin "what color the governor > is": the main point is that he should be loyal to the president and > the government. > END _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------- This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
