Columns of demonstrators are on the central square of Minsk, the Komsomolskaya waterfront city of Riga. Holiday demonstration in Moscow. On the podium of the Mausoleum: Mikhail Gorbachev, VI Vorotnikov, Andrei Gromyko, LN Zaikov, EK Ligachev, P. Nikolaev, NI Ryzhkov, NN Smonkov, MS Solomentsev, VI Chebrikov, Eduard A. Shevardnadze, Yakovlev, D. T. Yazov, A. Lukyanov, and others.