It all adds up for Boris in the end

THE Margin is indebted to its friends at Gandon Capital Markets for the following one about the Russian election.

THE Margin is indebted to its friends at Gandon Capital Markets for the following one about the Russian election.

Boris Yeltsin calls up the head of the electoral commission to be told that the communists have got 55 per cent of the vote.

"Don't worry," he assures Yeltsin, "you've got 60 per cent."