First Soviet millionaire joins Yabloko party, wants to run for Duma — official
Artyom Tarasov was a pioneer of Soviet cooperative movement in the late 1980s Artyom Tarasov © Fyodor Savintsev/ITAR-TASS Read also MOSCOW, March 31 /TASS/. First Soviet millionaire Artyom Tarasov has joined Russiaâs liberal Yabloko party and is planning to run for a seat in the Russian State Duma (parliament), one of Yablokoâs top officials Sergey Mitrokhin told TASS. "Artyom Tarasov has joined our party. He said that [Grigory Yavlinsky, the party leader] had offered him to become a Yabloko member as early as in 1993. But he was not ready to do that then. But now he is ripe to a...
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