MOSCOW. Nov 1 (Interfax) - The leaders of Yabloko, the Union of Right Forces (SPS), and The Other Russia opposition coalition are inclined to see some parallels between the current situation in Russia and that before the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.

Speaking at a meeting of the Open Forum on Thursday, Yabloko leader Grigory Yavlinsky mentioned among such parallels "the dominance of corruption and bureaucracy, the absence of inner mechanisms for modernization, the absence of economic and political competition, the absence of a mechanism for the government's renewal, and the absence of the chance to form a responsible and efficient opposition."

"Thus, an authoritarian system is taking shape, which always leads to this or that kind of revolution, which could be bloody or velvet," Yavlinsky said.

"What is needed now is very hard, lengthy, and inglorious evolutionary work to modernize the country, and there is a need for an alternative to the existing authorities. But this alternative can on no account be related to nationalists or Stalin-style Communists, and this alternative can hardly be those who used the slogan 'corruption for the sake of democracy'," Yavlinsky said.

SPS Federal Political Council Deputy Chairman Leonid Gozman said at the session, "There is some analogy between what happened then (in 1917) and what is happening now."

"The authorities have an absolute feeling of stability, and the tsar also had it," Gozman said. "In addition, the opposition is being ousted toward revolution, and the tsar did not want to discuss anything as well. He had his own truth, and this was quite enough for him," Gozman said.

"The authorities have produced a very strong annoyance," which "is emanating not from a narrow circle of intelligentsia, but from much broader circles," he said.

Garry Kasparov, one of the leaders of The Other Russia, also agreed that "analogies with 1916-1917 are quite explicit."

"The current Duma is absolutely powerless, as was the case under the tsar. And besides, revolutions occur when evolutionary methods of development are exhausted, and the incumbent authorities seem to have exhausted them," Kasparov said.

"Objective tensions are rising in society, and this is exactly what serves as the main engine of revolutionary processes," Kasparov said. "For instance, a gap between the rich and the poor has reached an unimaginable size," he said.

"Of course, we are not talking about a mass havoc like that which happened in 1917, but I have no doubt that this vertical thing will fall down," he said.