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This is a transcript from The World Today. The program is broadcast around Australia at 12:10pm on ABC Local Radio.
Yuri Zhdanov s house
Reporter: Linda Mottram
COMPERE: Well, the Mayor of Moscow is one of the most powerful and ambitious men in Russia, running the Russian capital like his personal thiefdom and angling, now that Russia is approaching elections, to become President to replace Boris Yeltsin, if not at least, Prime Minister. But there s a loan Muscovite who s aggravating the mayor and frustrating his plans, not his plans to run the country but his plans for a brand new ring road right around the sprawling traffic-jammed city.