Moscow city. August-October 1988. Collection of signatures under the appeal demanding the provision of mandates to delegates to the XIX party conference Y. Afanasyev, Y. Koryakin, V. Korotich. Demonstration at the Bolshoi Theater. Police cordons and pickets on Gorky Street, Pushkin Square and other places. A rally at the Minsk Hotel, organized by the Popular Front and the Democratic Union. OMON fighters disperse and arrest demonstrators. Members of the leadership of the organizations "Popular Front and" Democratic Union "Y. Mityunov, N. Fedorovsky at home with family members, at meetings of organizations. N. Fedorovsky gives interviews. Among the speakers and those present at the joint meeting of organizations: V. Novodvorskaya, S. Tsarkov, O. Rumyantsev Representatives of the Popular Front and the Democratic Union at a reception at the prosecutor's office.