the ardent populist amangeldy tuleyev from kuzbass fought against the rise in prices ; vadim bakatin,ffairs, known as a reformer of the security forces, sought to attract the liberal intelligentsia. the surprise that captured the imagination of voters for a long time was the master of political outrageousness vladimir zhirinovsky, the leader of the first officially registered liberal democratic party in the ussr. the choice offered to the russians seemed to give gorbachev, as well as all supporters of the old regime, a chance to prevent yeltsin from being elected in the first round. the second round could have been postponed until the fall, or not held at all, because even then a plan to transfer the country to a state of emergency was maturing in some power offices. all allied media did not work as much in favor of the main favorite of the kremlin, nikolai ryshkov, as against yeltsin, using all kinds of compromising evidence and outright intimidation. yeltsin, for his part, chose a win-win tactic, focusing on the obvious hopelessness of late soviet life, on the total shortage of good