NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Moscow on why President Boris Yeltsin gets only grudging support from Russians. With only a few days left before the election on Sunday, June 16th, voters appear to be favoring Yeltsin over his communist rival Gennady Zyuganov (gehn-NAH-dee zyoo-GAH-noff). Yeltsin supporters back him because they think he is the lesser of two evils. They worry he has garnered too much power, that he hasn't done enough to protect Russians from the hardships caused by the fall of the Soviet Union, and that he might embarrass the nation through some personality flaw.
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