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They came by the tens of thousands, some bearing posters depicting the jubilant face of Boris Yeltsin, others holding placards demanding the removal of Mikhail Gorbachev. By noon on a chilly Sunday, more than 200,000 people filled the vastness of Manezh Square outside the crenellated walls of the Kremlin. As a speaker shouted out resolutions, the crowd voted overwhelmingly for authorities to stop persecuting Yeltsin, leader of the Russian republic, and for Gorbachev to resign as Soviet President. Addressing the throng, Moscow Mayor Gavril Popov asked, "Do we trust the leadership of the country?" The crowd roared back...
...Russia grow longer and longer, and the people standing in them grow angrier and angrier. Two weeks after the Russian government ended price controls on most products, the economic reforms of Russian President Boris Yeltsin are under heavy attack. Last week 50,000 people crowded into Moscow's Manezh Square to protest price increases and call for Yeltsin's resignation...
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