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By JOHN KISER * Rappahannock New* Contributing Writer
II is Saturday, Oct. 2. While much of the world is riveted on the political standoff between Boris Yeltsin and Alexander Rutskoi, Muscovites are calmly going about tlieir everyday business.
I had spent the day in the country visiting friends and had been dropped off in the late afternoon at Pushkin Square by my driver, Anatoly, who had given me his 25 cents worth of political wisdom during our drive.
Born in Ulyanovsk, Lenin’s hometown, his survey of the political situation had been simple: “No one bejieves politicians anymore, no one
Knning the country, and no one
's what to do.” He supports .Yeltsin as the lesser of two evils but believes there will be no real change until the Communists are gone.
“Yeltsin won respect with the people because he tore up his party card publicly, but the whole lot are bred to the bone Communists: YeltIron
Mari' had
transformed himself
into a Molotov
cocktail, an apt
metaphor for Russia
today.
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