Five thousand Communists rally in center of Kyiv

Nearly five thousand Communist Party adherents take part in a meeting on occasion of the October Revolution anniversary at Maydan Nezalezhnosti in Kyiv.

According to an UNIAN correspondent, the rally started after the main column of demonstrator, headed by Communist Party of Ukraine leader Petro Symonenko marched down to Maydan.

On the opposite side of the Khreshchatyk Street, Svoboda all-Ukrainian Union are holding their own rally against Communists.

Representatives of different regional organizations of the Communist Party of Ukraine began to deliver speeches.