ldyrev-Lukin Bloc
(Yabloko) 27, Women of Russia 23, Democratic Party of Russia 15,
Russia's Path 12, other parties 23, affiliation unknown 12, unfilled
(as of 13 March 1994; Chechnya did not participate in the election) 1;
Speaker Ivan RYBKIN (Agrarian Party); note - as of 11 April 1995,
seats were as follows: Russia's Democratic Choice 54, New Regional
Policy 32, Liberal Democrats 54, Agrarian Party 51, Communist Party of
the Russian Federation 45, Unity and Accord 25,
Yavlinskiy-Boldyrev-Lukin Bloc (Yabloko) 28, Liberal Democratic Union
of 12 December 9, Women of Russia 22, Democratic Party of Russia 10,
Russia's Path 12, Duma 96 23, Russia 35, Stability 36, affiliation
unknown 14

Judicial branch: Constitutional Court, Supreme Court (highest court
for criminal, civil, and administrative cases), Superior Court of
Arbitration (highest court that resolves economic disputes)

Political parties and leaders:
pro-market democrats: Party of Russian Unity and Accord, Sergey
SHAKHRAY; Russia's Democratic Choice Party, Yegor GAYDAR; Russian
Movement for Democratic Reforms, Anatoliy SOBCHAK;
Yavlinskiy-Boldyrev-Lukin Bloc (Yabloko), Grigoriy YAVLINSKIY; Liberal
Democratic Union of 12 December, Boris FEDOROV
centrists/special interest parties: Civic Union for Stability,
Justice, and Progress, Arkadiy VOL'SKIY; Democratic Party of Russia,
Sergey GLAZ'YEV; Women of Russia, Alevtina FEDULOVA; Social Democratic
Peoples' Party, Vasiliy LIPITSKIY; New Regional Policy (NRP), Vladimir
MEDVEDEV
anti-market and/or ultranationalist parties: Agrarian Party, Mikhail
LAPSHIN; Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Gennadiy ZYUGANOV;
Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, Vladimir ZHIRINOVSKIY; Derzhava,
Aleksandr RUTSKOY
note: more than 20 political parties and associations tried to gather
enough signatures to run slates of candidates in the 12 December 1993
legislative elections, but only 13 succeeded

Other political or pressure groups: NA

Member of: BSEC, CBSS, CCC, CE (guest), CERN (observer), CIS, EBRD,
ECE, ESCAP, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO,
INMARSAT, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, IOC, IOM (observer), ISO, ITU, MINURSO,
NACC, NSG, OAS (observer), OSCE, PCA, PFP, UN, UN Security Council,
UNAMIR, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNIKOM, UNITAR, UNMIH, UNOMOZ,
UNPROFOR, UNTSO, UPU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC

Diplomatic representation in US:
chief of mission: Ambassador Sergey LAVROV