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Russian Constitutional Court

The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation considers the legitimacy of the Russian President's executive orders on prohibiting the USSR Communist Party and the Russian Communist Party, as well as reviewing the compliance of the USSR Communist Party and the Russian Communist Party with the Constitution. Member of the Russian Security Council Sergei Shakhrai, right, and Valentin Falin, former secretary of the USSR Communist Party, former head of the international department of the Communist Party's Central Committee and witness in the case, left, before the hearing.

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Second Congress of USSR People's Deputies

The second Congress of USSR People's Deputies (December 12-24, 1989), where the radical minority headed by Boris Yeltsin after the death of Andrei Sakharov demanded the abolition of Article 6 of the USSR Constitution, which stated that "the USSR Communist Party is the leading and guiding force" in the state. In turn, the conservative majority pointed to the destabilizing disintegration processes in the USSR and, consequently, the need to strengthen the powers of the center (the Soyuz group). Center: Vadim Medvedev, Soviet scientist and economist, Ph.D. in Economics, member of the USSR Communist Party Executive Committee Politburo, Kremlin Palace of Congresses (now the State Kremlin Palace).

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