RUSSIA: STATE DUMA SEAT UP FOR GRABS IN AMUR OBLAST.(elections)(Brief Article)
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Date: 10/8/2001
Five candidates will vie for a State Duma seat from Amur Oblast in by-elections to be held on 7 October, RFE/RL's Blagoveshchensk correspondent reported on 20 September. The seat was vacated when Leonid Korotkov won gubernatorial elections in the oblast last April (see "RFE/RL Russian Federation Report," 11 April 2001). Among those competing for the seat will be Aleksandr Venediktov, head of the Svoboda cosmodrome; local Communist Party ...
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