OMRI DAILY DIGEST

No. 21, Part I, 30 January 1996

Nizhnii Novgorod Governor Boris Nemtsov gave President Yeltsin a petition signed by one million residents of his region demanding that the war in Chechnya be ended and Russian troops be withdrawn, Russian media reported on 29 January. Nemtsov told Radio Rossii that the vast number of signatures, collected in only a few weeks, "speaks for itself." He added that Yeltsin is being cut off from information that his advisers deem to be not good for him. Nemtsov said he will support Yeltsin's re-election if the president changes his Chechnya policy. -- Laura Belin