COMMUNIST OPPOSITION PLANS MASS PROTESTS FOR THE FALL.

Agroup of diehard Soviet era communist groups will stage protestactions on the anniversaries of the August 1991 coup, the October1993 suppression of the Supreme Soviet, and the 1917 October revolutionto protest the "anti-people" Yeltsin regime, its organizerstold Interfax July 25. Some of these groups have begun early:on July 24, several extremist groups gathered to denounce thegovernment’s concessions to Chechnya, and urged "pickingup the gun and going into regions of Moscow where the ‘blacks'[a Russian racist term for North Caucasians and Central Asians]live," Russian television reported July 24.

Russian Monarchists Get Organized.