On February 24, 2003 President Vladimir Putin dismissed the Russian Government after he first fired his Prime Minister Kasyanov. According to Putin, this decision was not the result of his dissatisfaction about the work of his cabinet at all. He said that their work was very satisfactory, but he also stated that his decision was made to give him a clear command after March 14^th in which everything points to his easy victory!

Putin is confident that he will get his second term as president, since the opposition from the CPRF is absolutely abysmal to say the least.

Putin is being PUT-IN as before by the big oil gurus and with the helping hand of all the corporations, Western Transnational Corporations and Imperialism itself…since Putin is the man that Uncle Sam considers as "his man" in the Kremlin.

It is very interesting that Putin is surrounding himself with his cronies who were with him in St. Petersburg – all of whom were undermining the Soviet Union and catering to the West in every aspect… while money was flowing in to help… including from that rabid anti-communist George Soros, a personal friend of Putin.

Even though the Russian stock market practically crashed, Wall Street stocks jumped up, since it is a sure sign as to who sleeps together with whom in one bed and – obviously President Bush is hoping for a victory in the USA, thus the partnership that will be formed broods evil for the whole world and for the Soviet people in particular.

The lie that Putin fired the prime minister because of being the last hold-off of the Yeltsin regime - is nothing but hog wash. With the economic situation getting worse by day, with the complete sell-out not producing for the Russian people the standard of living that they were promised; with internal strife mounting, with labour strikes, with demonstrations gaining momentum, President Putin very cleverly had gotten rid of his government just before the election, thus he can say that "it was they who sabotaged my plans to improve the life of Russians. I tried, but my hands were tied!"

That brings us to the CPRF and Zyuganov, its leader. History will never forgive Zyuganov and his sell-out policies. He sold out to Yeltsin and he sold out to Putin.

In a news dispatch just in, it was reported that there is a bitter internal, struggle inside the CPRF and questions about their candidate for president, Nikolai Kharitonov. There are demands for the resignation of Zyuganov as leader. The party is split and is not likely to be active until a new leader of the CPRF is picked at the CPRF congress this June.

Michael Lucas
Editor