Gennady Zyuganov
MOS2000120304 - 03 DECEMBER 2000 - MOSCOW, RUSSIA: The leader of the Russian Communist Party, Gennady Zyuganov, speaks during the 7th Russian Communist Party Congress, which reelected him as the party's chairman, in Moscow, Sunday December 3, 2000. The Communists remain Russia's largest political party, but their ranks are splintering and it has lost much of its clout over the past year. The Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin's bust is in the background. bc/mm/Maxim Marmur UPI
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