RUSSIA: MOSCOW: COMMUNISTS PROTEST AGAINST NEW GOVERNMENT

(15 Sep 1998) Russian/Nat

Once again, communists have taken to the streets of central Moscow.

Several hundred protestors, led by the hardline communist Viktor Anpilov, called President Yeltsin an executioner who should be imprisoned.

Communist protestors, demonstrating against Russia's new government, marched through Moscow late on Monday.

They had planned to march by torchlight, but Moscow authorities forbade them.

They walked from the city's main statue of Lenin, on the renamed Kaluzhskaya Square, to Saint Basil's cathedral on Red Square.

The Communists were protesting against the new government and the new prime minister, Yevgeniy Primakov, appointed only last Friday by President Yeltsin.

SOUNDBITE: (Russian)
"We are sick of this illegal government. They came in 1991 and they stole everything from the country. Yeltsin and Chernomyrdin and all of those thieves did it."
SUPER CAPTION: Marina, pensioner

The Russian economy has taken a nose-dive in recent years.

Many older Russians hanker for the Communist era, saying that life in Russia was better before the reforms.

Despite the protests, the Russian government says it remains dedicated to creating a market economy.

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