Leningrad. Their responses are here arranged in the format of an interview. The people who express themselves here were in reality interviewed successively between July 20-25. All quotations are exact.
OULD you describe the political parties to which you belong? Piotr (member of the Democratic Party of Russia): It is not a political party in the proper sense of the word. It consists of organizations of some dozens of members.
Alexander (member of the Social Democratic Party): The SDP has some hundreds of members, in 78 towns, 300 in Moscow and 100 in Leningrad. We have only had official authorization for our existence for three weeks; we do not yet have a newspaper.