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3, other parties 15

Judicial branch: Constitutional Court, judges are appointed for life
by the Federation Council on recommendation of the president; Supreme
Court, judges are appointed for life by the Federation Council on
recommendation of the president; Superior Court of Arbitration, judges
are appointed for life by the Federation Council on recommendation of
the president

Political parties and leaders:
pro-market democrats: Yabloko Bloc [Grigoriy Alekseyevich YAVLINSKIY];
Russia's Democratic Choice Party [Yegor Timurovich GAYDAR]; Forward,
Russia! [Boris Grigor'yevich FEDOROV]
centrists/special interest parties: Our Home Is Russia [Viktor
Stepanovich CHERNOMYRDIN]; Russian People's Republican Party
[Aleksandr Ivanovich LEBED]; Congress of Russian Communities [Dmitriy
Olegovich ROGOZIN]; Women of Russia [Alevtina Vasil'yevna FEDULOVA and
Yekaterina Filippovna LAKHOVA]
anti-market and/or ultranationalist: Communist Party of the Russian
Federation [Gennadiy Andreyevich ZYUGANOV]; Liberal Democratic Party
of Russia [Vladimir Vol'fovich ZHIRINOVSKIY]; Agrarian Party [Mikhail
Ivanovich LAPSHIN]; Power To the People [Nikolay Ivanovich RYZHKOV and
Sergey Nikolayevich BABURIN]; Russian Communist Workers' Party [Viktor
Ivanovich ANPILOV and Viktor Arkad'yevich TYUL'KIN]
note: some 269 political parties, blocs, and associations tried to
gather enough signatures to run slates of candidates in the 17
December 1995 Duma elections; 43 succeeded

Political pressure groups and leaders: NA

International organization participation: BIS (pending member), BSEC,
CBSS, CCC, CE, CERN (observer), CIS, EAPC, EBRD, ECE, ESCAP, IAEA,
IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Inmarsat,
Intelsat, Interpol, IOC, IOM (observer), ISO, ITU, LAIA (observer),
MINUGUA, MINURSO, MTCR, NSG, OAS (observer), OSCE, PCA, PFP, UN, UN
Security Council, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIKOM, UNITAR,
UNMIBH, UNMOP, UNOMIG, UNPREDEP, UNTSO, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO,
WToO, WTrO (applicant), ZC

Diplomatic representation in the US:
chief of mission: Ambassador Yuliy Mikhaylovich VORONTSOV
chancery: 2650 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20007
telephone: [1] (202) 298-5700 through 5704
FAX: [1] (202) 298-5735
consulate(s) general: New York, San Francisco, and Seattle

Diplomatic representation from the US:
chief of mission: Ambassador James F. COLLINS
embassy: Novinskiy Bul'var 19/23, Moscow
mailing address: APO AE 09721
teleph