vadin bakatin, a former minister of internal affairs known as a reformer of the security forces, soughtact 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. choice. proposed to the russians, seemed to give gorbachev, as well as all supporters of the old regime, a chance to prevent yeltsin’s election 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 worked not so much in favor of the main favorite of the kremlin, nikolai ryshkov, but against yeltsin, using all kinds of compromising evidence and... a native defender who is being persecuted by the evil authorities, but will bypass all ambushes and will definitely win, the attractiveness of this folk myth, transmitted throughout the republic from... by mouth was indestructible. of co