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A new president for the USSR? The spring session of the Supreme Soviet, or parliament, is currently expected to designate a president. This would fill a traditionally ceremonial post left vacant by Leonid Brezhnev's passing last year. Soviet officials deny Western news reports of an imminent meeting to make such changes.

The Western reports said the meeting would take place in March.m

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