RIA Novosti. Russia
Jan 20 2007

Russian Communists pledge to restore former Soviet Union
13:52 | 20/ 01/ 2007

MOSCOW, January 20 (RIA Novosti) – Russian Communists urged Saturday
the Communist parties of ex-Soviet states to join their efforts to
restore the former Soviet Union.

Communist leaders from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Armenia and other
ex-Soviet republics gathered Saturday in the Russian capital to
discuss the strengthening of future cooperation and the development
of a common strategy to re-unite the former members of the
now-defunct Soviet Union.

"We believe that the restoration of a broken union [between ex-Soviet
republics] is our key goal, and we will continue our efforts to
accomplish this [the restoration] task," Russian Communist Party
leader Gennady Zyuganov said during a plenary meeting of the Council
of the Union of Communist Parties of ex-Soviet states.

The participants of the meeting issued a statement calling upon all
parties on the territory of the former Soviet Union that adhere to
Communist ideology to join the fight for the "socialist development
of brotherly nations and their unification into a Union State."

"Without a union between Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and other brotherly
republics that used to be members of the Soviet Union, we do not have
a future," Zyuganov said.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress