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Abstract
The elections that were discussed so exactingly for many months in 1993 have now taken place. A fundamentally new representative and legislative organ of power, the Federal Assembly, was born on 12 December. On that same day, a new Russian constitution was adopted. The authors of all these ideas expected that the former multipolar parliament would be replaced by another, more homogeneous in its political coloration, in which the reigning position would be occupied by the radical reformers and any opposition to them, if one formed at all, would be negligibly small. But things turned out otherwise….