From: viznyuk@PACIFIC.MPS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (Sergei Viznyuk)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.soviet
Subject: News from Sovok
Date: 9 Apr 92 15:39:27 GMT
Reply-To: "talk.politics.soviet via ListServ" <TPS-L@indycms.bitnet>

Today Russian TV reported:

  Yesterday evening the Deputy Premier Gaidar on a session of
People's Deputies of Russia threatened the whole Cabinet would resign
if legislature revokes the "extraodinary" powers from president.
Today  the hard-line opposition introduced the project of
resolution which should in fact remove those "powers" from Yeltsin.
The debates over this resolution would continue tomorrow.

  The deadlock over the Black Sea Fleet continues with both
Russia and Ukraine trying to overrun their opponent's
decrees. The negotiations between Russia and Ukraine are
going on in Sevastopol "with no result". Yesterday
Ukrainian President Kravchuk declared that "it's only
Russia which should be blamed for the situation".
The Black Sea military not knowing which flag to rise,
was reported as raising the St.Andrei's flag of Russian
Imperial Fleet.
  Yesterday it was reported that Kravchuk has ordered
several transport planes with special police troops to
be send to Crimea to prevent the Black Sea Fleet ships
from defecting to Russia.

  In Moldova today the National Guards of Pridnestrovskaya
Republic opened fire on Moldavian police killing one and
wounding two policemen. The one of the strongholds of
Russian-Ukrainian militmen - Dubossary is still
blocked up by Moldavian police.

  The Arminian troopes have taken hostage 400 Azeri
civilians from one of the villages on the border
between Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbajdzhan today.

  Yesterday evening the fire broked out in one of the
military warehouses few miles from Yerevan (Armenia).
The fire is still continuing with 10-20 shells exploding
each minute. There are two versions of events: one is
that Russia's military command after withdrawal of CIS
troops has ordered to destroy the rest of the arms, and
the other is that the fire broked out after the attack of
Armenian guerillas who tried to get those arms. The
commander of Transcaucasian military district (or army's
group as it's now called) denied both reports.

  Today the Azeri guerillas attacked the military
warehouse near Baku taking hostage 4 CIS soldiers.

  Today ended the visit of President of Kyrgystan to
Germany. "This was the first step in establishing
relations between Germany and Kyrgystan", said the
Kyrgys President in interview to Russian TV. Until
now, and probably for some time in future the
Kyrgystan's interests in Germany were represented
by Russian embassy.

  The Lithuanian goverment has adopted the resolution
finally acknoledging the fact of "intentional collaboration
of former Prime Minister of Lithuania Kazimira Prunskiene
with KGB".

  The one of the main "plotters" of August coup -
General Yazov was reported as "writing and singing
Russian romance songs", while being in custody
under preliminary inverstigation. One of the Moscow
recording firms is going to issue his first LP disk soon.
It was reported that "there are many orders for this
disk, mainly from abroad".

  M.Gorbachev for the first time was giving evidence
to Russian prosecutors, investigating the CPSU financial
affairs, yesterday.

Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network

RUSSIAN CONGRESS GETS BOOST:
   Russia's legislators won a tactical victory over President
Boris Yeltsin Monday, demanding that he defend his economic
program to elected deputies, instead of handing the job over to
one of his lieutenants. The Congress of People's Deputies, in its
first meeting since the August coup, voted down Yeltsin's request
that the report on economic reform be made by Yegor Gaidar.

PRAVDA RUNS PRESSES AGAIN:
   Pravda, the former Communist Party newspaper, is resuming
publication less than a month after soaring costs halted its
presses. Pravda, which means "truth," will publish on Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Sundays in four- to six-page issues. Pravda's
editor-in-chief, Gennady Seleznov, says a recent bank loan should
keep Pravda alive until the end of the year.

04/09/92
S.V.
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