According to two recent articles in "Segodnya" (January 5 and January 11, 2001), Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, the grandson of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, has founded two new political parties in Russia and Georgia.

In Russia, Mr. Dzhugashvili, who throughout 1999-2000 made several public antisemitic statements, is attempting to register a new version of the "Stalin Block for the USSR," this time without the participation of Viktor Anpilov's radical leftist "Working Russia." As before, Stanislav Terekhov's Union of Officers, some of whose members reportedly staged an antisemitic demonstration in Moscow recently blaming "Zionists" for the sinking of the "Kursk" submarine, will participate in the Stalin Block. "Segodnya" warns that, "if with the silent agreement of the Kremlin, a party (or even a movement) with the name of Stalin is registered by the Ministry of Justice, Russian society will receive a clear signal of a change of mood at the very top of the federal power structure." However, it should be noted that the Stalin Block did poorly in the 1999 parliamentary elections.

In Georgia, Mr. Dzhugashvili has founded the Communist Reformers Party in association with Dzhumbera Patiashvili, the former first secretary of the Georgian Communist Party in the Soviet period, and the head of the People's Patriotic Union, Avtandila Margiani.

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