Battle looms

23.10.1999

The decision by Yevgeny Primakov, a former prime minister, to join Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov"s party, Fatherland, which had earlier formed an alliance with a regional governors" group, All Russia, could make the movement virtually unbeatable, if-and this still is a big if-the forthcoming parliamentary and presidential elections are held as scheduled (next December and June, respectively) and conducted more or less fairly...