Today, the first stage of the 18th Congress of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation started in Snegiri in Moscow Oblast. At the first meeting of the organizational plenum of the Central Committee, a vote was held to elect a new chairman of the party.
Members of the Central Committee voted unanimously to elect Gennady Zyuganov as chairman of the central committee, Interfax reports, citing the head of the press service of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Alexander Yushchenko.
