Gennady Zyuganov, the leader of the Communists, the largest party, has called for the president's resignation.
Only the Communist, Gennady Zyuganov, has any chance of obtaining more than 10% of the popular vote.
The Communists' leader, Petro Simonenko, is even more stuck in a Soviet time-warp than his Russian counterpart, Gennady Zyuganov.
The media were readier to praise Mr Yeltsin (forgetting the war in Chechnya) and blacken his Communist opponent, Gennady Zyuganov.
Although their leader, Gennady Zyuganov, remains the most popular alternative to Mr Yeltsin, there is no enthusiasm for a wholesale return to communism.
Mr Putin's main opponent is the perennial Communist loser, Gennady Zyuganov.
The communists form the largest bloc in parliament, and their leader, Gennady Zyuganov, is widely touted as the man to beat in the June 16 presidential elections.
The Communists, of course, led by Gennady Zyuganov, are in full cry and wondering whether, for the first time since communism fell, to take a batch of ministries under Mr Chernomyrdin.
Tweak the scenery a bit, and Mr Chernomyrdin could conceivably find himself teamed up with the Communist leader, Gennady Zyuganov, the mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, or his current preferred choice Alexander Lebed, a popular former general.
The relative success of the Communist candidate, Gennady Zyuganov, who came second in the poll with 29% to Mr Putin's 53%, means that the new president may let the Communists have more posts than he might have wished.
Likewise, Gennady Zyuganov, the Communist leader, looks fated to lead the pack with the rock-solid constituency that should gain him one-fifth of votes in the first round of a presidential race but still looks very likely to lose to virtually anyone in a run-off.
So when Mr Yeltsin's election campaign looked in danger of floundering, and his Communist challenger, Gennady Zyuganov, was leading him by 20 percentage points in the opinion polls, a group of nervous tycoons made clear they would put up any amount of money and procure any amount of favourable media coverage for Mr Yeltsin.
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