Many Forces at Play as Russians Ponder Post-Election Future
Prepared by Kit Carlson and Hilary Mackenzie
WashingtonPost.com Staff
June 14, 1996
Uncertainty rocks the Russian electorate as they vote for a new president. Boris Yeltsin and Gennady Zyuganov polish their images through television. Urban Russian twenty-somethings cling to the trappings of capitalism, while their older country comrades yearn for communism's return. The West anxiously waits to see what will happen next.
Both Parties Turn to Media to Reach Voters
Fear and loathing clouds the mood of the Russian electorate.
Russia's presidential candidates are using
television advertising for the first time.
'God Forbid!' Zyuganov wins, feisty newspaper says.
Russian media stacks the deck for Yeltsin.
Young Russians Ponder Their Future
Russia's Generation X remembers little of communism, but fears a future under Zyuganov's hand.
City and Country Folk Have Differing Views
In Russia's 'Red Belt,' older, poorer people are suspicious of their 'Green Belt' capitalist cousins.
Meanwhile, the West Watches and Wonders
Yeltsin and Zyuganov differ on how closely Russia should be tied to the West.
Clinton, other Western leaders agree: Yeltsin's their man.
Out in the hinterland, Zyuganov rails at the West.
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