The Agrarians refused an offer Tuesday to join the Communists and picked two party stalwarts to run with party leader Mikhail Lapshin at the top of their federal list in the Dec. 7 parliamentary elections. At a congress adorned with girls in traditional peasant dress and slogans saying "Peace and Bread," some 300 delegates approved deputy party chairman Alexander Nazarchuk and Alexei Chepa, the head of an agro-holding and one of the party's main sponsors, for the second and third spots. Nikolai Kharitonov, leader of the rival agro-industry faction in the State Duma who is running in the No. 2...