MOSCOW, Nov 7: Russia’s ruling party and its Communist rivals on Wednesday marked the 90th anniversary of the October 1917 Revolution, sparring over the uprising’s legacy weeks before key elections.
The opposition Communist Party said tens of thousands would take to the streets across the country to mark Vladimir Lenin’s overthrow of the tsarist empire in a major demonstration ahead of Dec 2 parliamentary elections.
But the Communist leadership was noticeably absent from a lavish parade on Red Square, which authorities dubbed as a reconstruction of a famous World War II procession marking the 1917 revolution, rather than of the uprising itself.—AFP
