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About 4,000 Communist supporters commemorated the 1917 Revolution at a gathering tarnished by scuffles Sunday, while 1,300 former paratroopers demanded the ouster of Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov across town. Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov told Ekho Moskvy radio that 30,000 participants would show up at the downtown Tverskaya Ploshchad, but a city police spokesman said by telephone that only 4,000 attended. Read the story here.