Outlook in Moscow
A survey of Muscovites found:
26% rate President Clinton a better leader than Boris N. Yeltsin.
61% said the Clinton-Yeltsin summit would be important.
32% said they believed Alaska, bought from Russia in 1867 for $7.2 million, should belong to Russia.
74% said the southern Kuril Islands, seized from Japan by the Soviet Union after World War II, should remain Russian territory.
Source: Telephone poll of 1,050 Muscovites, conducted Jan. 4-6 by the polling group Mnenie. Margin of error is 3 percentage points.
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