NUMBER 138 
DECEMBER 26 - JANUARY 1, 1995
COMMUNISTS TAKE 30% OF DUMA SEATS
Communist Party leader Gennady Zyugannov receives the congratulations of supporters in the wake of his party's election success. The Communist Party have gained, at latest count, 21.81% of votes across the country, which will translate to about 30% of all seats in the Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament.
TOP STORIES
- Petersburg chooses Yabloko
- More than 2 million residents of St Petersburg cast their ballots in the
Duma elections, and most of them bucked a national trend by voting for Grigory
Yavlinsky's liberal Yabloko party.
- Five local Liberal Democratic aides arrested
- Five Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) aides, including a
former candidate for the State Duma, were under arrest last week for
obstructing the work of a journalist in the run up to the December 17
election.
SECTIONS
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