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A senior aide to President Boris Yeltsin said on Sunday the Russian leader was ready to act decisively in the wake of bloody May Day riots in which hundreds were injured. Sergei Filatov, head of Yeltsin’s administration, told Commonwealth television that the parliament should meet to strip the immunity from prosecution enjoyed by those deputies who helped organize the march, Itar-Tass reported that organizers of the march predicted there would be more violence if authorities tried to clamp down on similar demonstrations. Parliamentary leader and arch-rival Russian Khasblatov ordered a top-level probe into police conduct during the riot. Scores were injured in the rioting on Gagarin Square in the worst violence in Moscow since the August 1991 failed coup.