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1996 Russian presidential elections

Boris Yeltsin's victory in the Russian presidential elections, the relative novelty of universal suffrage in the West and the need for democracy, as discussed by Alistair Cooke.

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Fri 5 Jul 199621:00
BBC Radio 4

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