Yeltsin Nominated to Run for President of Russian Federation
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MOSCOW — A democratic faction has nominated Communist maverick Boris N. Yeltsin to run for president of the Russian Federation, the largest of the Soviet Union’s 15 republics and a potential power base against President Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
The president of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic will be chosen by the republic’s 1,026-member Congress of People’s Deputies when it convenes in Moscow on May 16 packed with radical legislators who won seats in last month’s elections.
The Democratic Russia bloc Saturday night nominated Yeltsin and nine other candidates for the presidential post, the Tass news agency reported Sunday.
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