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| | Russian Presidential Elections-96 |
 | | VCIOM conducted a poll (published on October 3, 1996) among 1,600 Russians, in which respondents were to name the most trusted politicians) revealed the following: Lebed was named by 34%, Zyuganov by 15% and Yeltsin by 12%. |
 | | The first round of Russian presidential elections was held on June 16, 1996. |
 | | Under the law on presidential elections, candidates had to collect at least 1,000,000 signatures, with no more than 70,000 signatures from any one region of the Russian Federation. |
| www.acs.brockport.edu /~dgusev/Russian/elections.html (1294 words) |
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