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| | 1993 Human Rights Report: RUSSIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Vice President Aleksandr Rutskoy and CPD Chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov urged the demonstrators, some of whom were armed with automatic weapons, to attack the nearby mayor's offices and the Ostankino television facilities. |
 | | While some deputies were detained and released, Khasbulatov, Rutskoy, and the "ministers" of security, interior, and defense were arrested. |
 | | On October 3, responding to Vice President Rutskoy's exhortation from the balcony of the White House, hundreds of anti-Yeltsin demonstrators, some armed with automatic weapons, attacked the Moscow mayor's office and later the television facilities at Ostankino. |
| dosfan.lib.uic.edu /erc/democracy/1993_hrp_report/93hrp_report_eur/Russia.html (8661 words) |
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