MOSCOW. Jan 11 (Interfax) - The Russian Communist Party will join the effort to organize a rally in support of honest elections on February 4. "We will participate in all mass events," Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov said at a news conference at Interfax on Wednesday.
Zyuganov told Interfax later that Communists will attend a meeting of the organizing committee during which the party's role in the event will be agreed.
Zyuganov said he delegated two of his representatives to attend the rally on Prospekt Sakharova on December 24, "but they were kept waiting for two hours and were not allowed to speak to the audience."
Censorship was rigorous and unpleasant, he said. "It was not an opposition rally, but a rally organized by a narrow clan who want to impose a new team, Yeltsin-Gaidar style, on us. The country does not need it. It will be an option worse than in 1991," he said.
Sergei Obukhov, a secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee, said courts are hearing more than 100 complaints against vote rigging in the December 4 parliamentary elections, filed by the Communists.
MOSCOW. Jan 11 (Interfax) - The Russian Communist Party will join the effort to organize a rally in support of honest elections on February 4.
"We will participate in all mass events," Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov said at a news conference at Interfax on Wednesday.
Zyuganov told Interfax later that Communists will attend a meeting of the organizing committee during which the party's role in the event will be agreed.
Zyuganov said he delegated two of his representatives to attend the rally on Prospekt Sakharova on December 24, "but they were kept waiting for two hours and were not allowed to speak to the audience."
Censorship was rigorous and unpleasant, he said. "It was not an opposition rally, but a rally organized by a narrow clan who want to impose a new team, Yeltsin-Gaidar style, on us. The country does not need it. It will be an option worse than in 1991," he said.
Sergei Obukhov, a secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee, said courts are hearing more than 100 complaints against vote rigging in the December 4 parliamentary elections, filed by the Communists.