That Mr. Khasbulatov is a Chechen, a southern people heavily represented in Moscow's organized crime, is often cited by Russians, along with the fact that Stalin was a Georgian. In the campaign, Mr. Khasbulatov has maintained a low profile, and Mr. Yeltsin's opponents have pushed Vice President Rutskoi, a military man with a patriotic bent, to the forefront. Mr. Rutskoi has hammered hard at allegations of corruption among Mr. Yeltsin's aides. But out here he did not seem to score many points. He seems somehow slippery.
Western aid seems totally irrelevant as a campaign issue here.
Most people seemed to lump foreign credits, grants and relief aid from all Western countries into one sum that they found vaguely useless and slightly humiliating. If a man doesn't want to get up, there's no point trying to help him. She wanted to be a lawyer, but the small country school was weak preparation for the entry exams to a law school, so she had been spending extra hours studying. They complain a lot, they criticize him and blame him for everything bad, but basically they're not doing so badly. Of our six graduates last year, three are planning to stay here.