line "Cassandra" - the ability to prediet the future - over the part of its story where it reported Lebed's vision of the coming explosion. But a collaborator of Nezavisimaya Gazeta, which supports the attempt to restore capitalism in Russia, took no less dramatic a view.
In its October 24 issue, this Russian daily, one of the best informed and most pontical of the Kussian papers. ran a long article by Tatiana Koshkareva titled, The Approaching Catastrophe and How to Combat It."
The author acknowledged taking her title from an article by Lenin the old way. Neither has any money.
Russia is closer than ever to becoming a country with a two-party system [sic]. For the first time there is appearing a "party of government" and a "party of opposition", including all the political organisations that have excer un let now In these conditions, even to preserve the status quo, the "party of government' has no choice hut "within the framework of the Constitution" to assume additional powers - above all, powers to raise monev at anv cost even at the cost of changing the economic course Only money can pacifi the Public opinion polls, according to an article in the October 27 Eleftherotypia, the most prestigious of the Greek papers, show that Lebed has the support of 35 per cent of the population, as against 15 per cent for Zyuganov, the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, and 12 per cent for Yeltsin The same article points out that 75 per cent of the Russian population supported the peace agreement that Lebed negotiated to end the Chechen war.
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