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On Friday, at a meeting with United Russia leadership on preparations for the congress, he outlined key points of his plan for the modernization. Communist party leader Gennady Zyuganov has noted that the tasks set by Medvedev indicate that United...
The average salary in Russia is around $900, although wages are much higher in Moscow and St. Petersburg. “This law will not stop the growing protests and bears a deeply provocative nature,” Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov told the roundtable. ...
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, left, flanked by Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, holds consultations with the Communist party parliament faction in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, May 8, 2012. Russia's parliament has approved former... View Photo »
We’ve staged this demo around the following themes: Let’s build an intelligent and strong Russia, let’s chase scoundrels and thieves from corridors of power, and let’s bring a government of national confidence, and a new direction for our country
“I can’t say I share their political ideologies,” Yashin said as he stood by a fountain. “But there are people here with very different political views. We want to unite all the opposition to Putin.” Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, who came a...
Diversification of political elites and the emergence of a new mainstream political force must also take place. Mikhail Prokhorov’s success in securing third place in the election and his subsequent rise are noteworthy in this context. While Gennady...
This appears to be changing slowly. After a large protest Sunday turned violent and police unleashed a broad crackdown on public dissent, Gennady Zyuganov, the longserving leader of Russia’s Communist Party, vocally defended the demonstrators. He...
Russia's former president Dmitry Medvedev (C) meets with members of the Russian Communist party, led by its head Gennady Zyuganov (R), in Moscow, May 8, 2012. Russian police on Tuesday detained two opposition leaders for staging an overnight sit-in... View Photo »
I am very happy that I managed to outpace Gennady Zyuganov, as this is the start of the building of a new political system
"Instead of this a fifth 'I' appeared: the imitation of all these reforms." The Communists also have become more willing to oppose the Kremlin, although the party has maintained its distance from the protesters. Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov, who...
This appears to be changing slowly. After a large protest Sunday turned violent and police unleashed a broad crackdown on public dissent, Gennady Zyuganov, the long-serving leader of Russia's Communist Party, vocally defended the demonstrators. He...
Gennady Andreyevich Zyuganov or Guennady Ziuganov (Russian: Генна́дий Андре́евич Зюга́нов; born 26 June 1944) is a Russian politician, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (since 1993), Chairman of the Union of Communist Parties - Communist Party of the Soviet Union (UCP-CPSU) (since 2001), deputy of the State Duma (since... Full Article
Russia's former president Dmitry Medvedev (C) meets with members of the Russian Communist party, led by its head Gennady Zyuganov (R), in Moscow, May 8, 2012. Russian police on Tuesday detained two opposition leaders for staging an overnight sit-in against Vladimir Putin's return to the...
View Photo »Russian Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov holds an issue of the Pravda newspaper as he addresses students during his visit to the University of Russian Academy of Education in Moscow, in this December 2, 2011 file photo. One hundred years after its first edition appeared, the once...
View Photo »From left, lawmakers Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Gennady Zyuganov, Sergei Mironov, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and lawmaker Andrei Vorobyev speak before a meeting with parliament factions leaders at the Gorki residence, outside Moscow on Wednesday, May 2, 2012.
View Photo »Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, right, drives a Soviet-made ZIM sedane before a meeting with parliament factions leaders at the Gorki residence outside Moscow on Wednesday, May 2, 2012. Lawmakers Vladimir Zhirinovsky, left, and Gennady Zyuganov, center, sit in the car.
View Photo »Russian communist party leader Gennady Zuganov (L) speaks with supporters during the May Labour Day rally of the Russian communist party in Moscow on May 1, 2012. Russia's president-elect Vladimir Putin and outgoing head of state Dmitry Medvedev joined over 100,000 people in a...
View Photo »Russian Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov (C) carries flowers as his party members and supporters march in the Red Square in Moscow on April 20, 2012, to pay their respects at the mausoleum of the Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin marking the upcoming 142nd anniversary of his birth. ...
View Photo »Gennady Zyuganov (front), leader of the Russian Communist Party, delivers a speech after Russia's Prime Minister and President-elect Vladimir Putin (back R) finished his annual address to the parliament at the Russian State Duma in Moscow, April 11, 2012. Several opposition deputies...
View Photo »Russia's Communist Party chief Gennady Zyuganov (L) speaks during a protest in central Moscow on April 7, 2012, devoted to political and social issues in Russia.
View Photo »Gennady Zyuganov, leader of the Russian Communist Party, delivers a speech during a rally in Moscow April 7, 2012. Communist Party activists and supporters gathered in central Moscow to protest against policies conducted by Russian Prime Minister and President-elect Vladimir Putin and...
View Photo »A communist party activist holds a placard of her leader Gennady Zyuganov as she shouts anti-Putin slogans during a rally demanding fair elections at the Pushkin Square in central Moscow on March 5, 2012. The opposition protest drew about 20,000 where leaders of the opposition movement...
View Photo »Russian communist party leader Gennady Zyuganov answers a journalist's question during a news conference in Moscow March 5, 2012. International monitors said on Monday Russia's presidential election was clearly skewed to favour Vladimir Putin, a verdict that could spur protesters...
View Photo »Russian communist party leader Gennady Zyuganov attends a news conference in Moscow March 5, 2012. International monitors said on Monday Russia's presidential election was clearly skewed to favour Vladimir Putin, a verdict that could spur protesters planning to take to the streets to...
View Photo »One of the presidential candidates, Russia's Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, speaks at a short press conference in his campaign staff in Moscow, on March 4, 2012.
View Photo »Communist party leader and presidential candidate Gennady Zyuganov (R) fills in documents before voting in a polling station in Moscow March 4, 2012. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is almost certain to win a third presidential term in an election that began on Sunday in Russia's far...
View Photo »Presidential candidate and leader of the Russian Communist Party Gennady Zyuganov (L) answers journalists' questions as he attends a news conference in Moscow March 2, 2012. Russians will go to the polls for their presidential election on March 4.
View Photo »Presidential candidate and leader of the Russian Communist Party Gennady Zyuganov (L) takes part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the city of Novomoskovsk, some 200 km (124 miles) south of Moscow January 25, 2012. After three failed attempts to win the...
View Photo »One of the presidential candidates, Russia's Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, speaks at his press conference in Moscow, on March 2, 2012. Russia on March 4 votes in presidential elections expected to send Vladimir Putin back to the Kremlin after his four year stint as prime...
View Photo »Three presidential candidates, (L-R) the Just Russia party leader, Sergei Mironov, ,Russia's Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov and Liberal Democratic Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky participate in a debate in Moscow, on February 27, 2012.
View Photo »Supporters greet their presidential candidate, Russia's Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, during his campaign rally in Moscow, on February 29, 2012. Russia on March 4 votes in presidential elections expected to send Vladimir Putin back to the Kremlin after his four year stint as...
View Photo »One of the presidential candidates, Russia's Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov (R), applauds while campaigning in Moscow, on February 29, 2012. Russia on March 4 votes in presidential elections expected to send Vladimir Putin back to the Kremlin after his four year stint as prime...
View Photo »Communist party leader Gennady Zyuganov speaks during his news conference in Moscow in this June 20, 2007 file photo. Russians will go to the polls on March 4, 2012, to choose one of five candidates to be their new president. Picture taken June 20, 2007.
View Photo »Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov walks with flowers as a portrait of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin is seen in the background, at the Red Square in Moscow in this March 5, 2009 file photo. Russians will go to the polls on March 4, 2012, to choose one of five candidates to be...
View Photo »Presidential candidates, Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov (R) and Fair Russia party leader Sergei Mironov, attend a news conference in Moscow February 27, 2012. Russians will go to the polls for their presidential election on March 4. Zyuganov is holding a paper which shows...
View Photo »Presidential candidates, Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov (L) and Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, attend a news conference in Moscow February 27, 2012. Russians will go to the polls for their presidential election on March 4.
View Photo »People hold portraits of Gennady Zyuganov, leader of the Russian Communist Party, as they attend a rally demanding a fair election in St. Petersburg February 26, 2012. Russians will go to the polls to elect a new president on March 4.
View Photo »Russia's former president Dmitry Medvedev (C) meets with members of the Russian Communist party, led by its head Gennady Zyuganov (R), in Moscow, May 8, 2012. Russian police on Tuesday detained two opposition leaders for staging an overnight sit-in against Vladimir Putin's return to the...
View Photo »We’ve staged this demo around the following themes: Let’s build an intelligent and strong Russia, let’s chase scoundrels and thieves from corridors of power, and let’s bring a government of national confidence, and a new direction for our country
I am very happy that I managed to outpace Gennady Zyuganov, as this is the start of the building of a new political system
I think that we must not congratulate Putin's team, him, or the country with this sort of election because everyone has lost, because the forced results and forced meetings cause nothing for the citizens of Russia except humiliation and distress
If there’s going to be a runoff election between Vladimir Putin and Gennady Zyuganov, should you vote for the communist leader?
have only one goal: To at least somehow lower the scale of dismay and protest that continues to surge in society
We are not going to acknowledge these elections. We consider them illegitimate, dishonest and un-transparent
I cannot recognise these elections as fair, honest and worthy ... I see no reason to congratulate anyone.
I'm for Prokhorov. For the new guy. I like his programme
I personally voted for a Russia that is educated, healthy, intelligent and prosperous. I want Russian citizens to feel they are people and not serfs. I am confident that a good future lies ahead of Russia
We need to spend at least 10-15 per cent of the budget on environmental protection, on the development of technologies that will be used to preserve forests, land, water resources and support agriculture. Over the past ten years, just one per cent of the budget spending has been allocated for this purpo...
We have the youngest, strongest and most dynamic team in the whole country
