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Article: Communist Party faces trial in Moscow today
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 7, 1992
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MOSCOW -- The Communist Party, which was outlawed in the wake of
last year's botched coup attempt, goes on trial today, accused of
engaging in criminal activities from the time it took over Russia in
1917 until it was overthrown last year.
In a historic hearing before Russia's Constitutional Court,
several former Communist officials will argue that President Boris N.
Yeltsin broke the law last August and November, when he issued
decrees banning the Communist Party and confiscating all the party's
property.
In response, Yeltsin's government will argue not only that the
decree was legal, but also that the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union was never a legitimate political party but rather ...