(16 Aug 1993) }QUOTE REF CIS: 12/8 – Russian President, Yeltsin, refuses to sign
GS16089302 parliament’s budget and threatens to force dissolution if
16.8.93 it resisted his demands for early elections this autumn.
13/8 – Serious diseases – diphtheria and cholera – return
to former Soviet Union, following radical decline in
health and living standards since break-up of communism.
TB is rife in prisons.
16/8 – Abkhazia accuses Georgia of shelling its forces in
violation of a peace plan to end fighting in the war-torn
region.
Date Shot: 12-16.8.93
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10:16:56
RUSSIA 12.8.93 WS Conference of journalists: Russian President,
Moscow Boris Yeltsin, to podium: Yeltsin, sot: Crowd applauding:
parliamentary proceedings: legislators speaking: blank
vote board, followed by results: Parliament Chmn, Ruslan
Khasbulatov, on TV, making statement: WS demonstrators at
river: CU rally speaker gesticulating: people listening:
WS people applauding: street view: barefoot child sitting
on pavement: crippled beggar on pavement: beggar getting
handout from motorist: (WTN)
10:18:16
GEORGIA 13.8.93 Man rifling through dustbins: nurse in hospital
Tbilisi corridor: nurses treating patients: doctor and nurse at
desk:
MORDOVIA 27-28.7.93 Prison: prisoners: patients being X-rayed:
Saransk doctor looking at X-rays: patient being injected: horse
and cart carrying away coffin: (WTN)
10:19:29
GEORGIA 16.8.93 WS Freight train loaded with Georgian APCs at
Sukhumi railway station: soldiers: tank being loaded onto train:
tank-tracks of APC on train: WS passenger train with
people sitting next to it: militia man: tank being swung
over train: tank manhandled into position: Colonel Sergei
Bogucharov, Russian observer, watching militia: men
spreading tarmac on road after it had been destroyed by
heavy shelling: Sergei Bogucharov, sot, (in Russian):
(WTN)
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