During the failed August 1991 coup, Prokhanov supported the junta calling itself the State Emergency Committee. In 1992 he joined the National Salvation Front's leadership, alongside Gennady Zyuganov, Nikolai Pavlov, Mikhail Astafyev and Igor Shafarevich, among others. The same year he created the Day Movement in an attempt to turn his newspaper's readership into a political force. During the September 1993 Russian constitutional crisis, "Den" became a mouthpiece for the radical opposition and Prokhanov got notoriety as a harsh critic of Yeltsin. After the Russian Parliament's demise in October that year "Den" was banned by the Russian Ministry of Justice. The newspaper re-emerged as "Zavtra" on 5 November 1993.