Demonstrations in Moscow marking International Women's Day

An elderly Communist, marching with the red flag of the former Soviet Union behind her, uses a spoon to bang the saucepan she is wearing on her head as she shouts slogans during an anti-Yeltsin rally called 'empty pots' which was held to mark International Women's Day in Moscow yesterday.

Photograph: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP

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