MOSCOW — As campaigning for Russia's parliamentary elections gathered pace in the final days of October, two of the country's main opposition newspapers remained suspended. Another national daily was under heavy government
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MOSCOW — When a country's parliament has been abolished, the Constitutional Court suspended and the constitution overturned, it is hard to argue that a coup d'etat has not taken place. Accordingly, the more brave of Western
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MOSCOW — Since tanks of the armed forces finally blew away Russia's parliament on October 4, President Boris Yeltsin has moved swiftly to suspend, disband or intimidate the major potential sources of opposition to his rule.
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Democrats arrested, beatenMOSCOW — Three leaders of the Party of Labour were arrested and savagely beaten as the regime of Boris Yeltsin moved to suppress the democratic opposition. Around 11 p.m. on October 3,
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Unions plan struggle to defend wagesMOSCOW — Defying heavy government pressure, Russia's main union body went ahead on September 28 with a conference that had been intended to map out a campaign of
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MOSCOW — A group of Russian academics and political activists has called for the formation of a new bloc of democratic opposition to the regime of President Boris Yeltsin. A statement released by the group begins by
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MOSCOW — Following on its suppression of the parliament-sponsored newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta, the regime of President Boris Yeltsin on October 4 suspended publication of a long series of opposition journals. At the same
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MOSCOW, the "White House", September 24 — As the rouble crashed and opposition newspapers were shut down, Russians on the fourth day after President Boris Yeltsin's coup d'etat were pondering a future of shattered links
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MOSCOW — "The Russian government's economic program cannot be implemented by democratic means", a speaker argued bluntly at an international conference held by the Russian trade unions on September 16. The same day,
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MOSCOW — "The Executive Committee of the Council of the FNPR calls on affiliated organisations, labour collectives, and blue and white collar workers to use all available means, including strikes, to make a decisive protest
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MOSCOW — More than half a million employees of the Russian coal industry stopped work for 24 hours on September 6, halting production in 133 of the country's 259 underground mines. The national stoppage was the latest in a
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MOSCOW — On the night of August 25, unknown assailants fired more than 100 bullets into the country house of Yuri Gekht, a business leader and head of the Industrial Union faction of the Russian parliament. Gekht, who has