Who was the unofficial leader of the party Ryzhkov led?
Gennady Zyuganov
Vladimir Putin
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Dmitry Medvedev
Answer
Gennady Zyuganov was the unofficial leader of the party Ryzhkov led. He was the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation from 1993 to 2004 and ran as a candidate in the Russian presidential elections in 1996, 2000, and 2004. Zyuganov is considered a hard-line communist and has been critical of both the Yeltsin and Putin governments.
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