Marchers in Moscow Support Yeltsin, 2 Others
Thousands of people marched to the walls of the Kremlin on Saturday to show support for Boris N. Yeltsin and two other members of Parliament they claim are threatened by hard-line Communist Party bureaucrats.
In a near-freezing drizzle, members and sympathizers of the grass-roots pro-democracy Russian People’s Front linked hands to form a human chain that stretched for miles along Gorky Street, the main artery leading from the Kremlin to Moscow’s northwestern suburbs.
Demonstrators carried placards defending Yeltsin, Moscow’s outspoken representative in the Soviet Parliament, and two state prosecutors in the legislature, Telman Gdlyan and Nikolai Ivanov, who have alleged corruption at the party’s highest levels.
Yeltsin, the former Communist Party boss in Moscow, came under attack late last month in the party daily Pravda for allegedly going on a drinking and buying spree while visiting the United States.
Pravda later apologized to Yeltsin, saying those charges, made in an Italian newspaper article that Pravda reprinted, could not be substantiated.
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