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From: "Vladimir Radyukhin" <hindu@online.ru>
Subject: Re: 8104-Hoagland/Putin
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004

I'd like to correct an important factual mistake in Jim Hoagland's Washington Post piece "Tough Guy Running Scared" (JRL#8104).

Explaining why "tough guy" Putin should be afraid of next weekend's election, Mr. Hoadland writes: "If turnout falls below 50 percent, the Constitution requires that the result be tossed out and a new vote held. Candidates on the March 14 ballot would be ineligible the next time around."

Meanwhile the Russian law on presidential elections says that only those candidates will be banned from a new vote "whose action (or inaction) provided the ground for recognising the vote invalid." (Chapter VIII, Article 57 )

It is on this false premise that Mr. Hoagland's story is built.

Vladimir Radyukhin,
Hindu correspondent

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