41.   Ilyushin was aide to Yeltsin when he was communist boss in his home region of Sverdlovsk in the Urals.

42.   Patiashvili had been Georgian communist boss while Shevardnadze was in Moscow and promised in his campaign to soften the pace of reform.

43.   That left the Moscow-installed Chechen prime minister, former Chechen communist party boss Doku Zavgayev, as the only serious candidate in the race.