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...fact was soon admitted to a Moscow hospital with gunshot wounds, apparently self-inflicted, from which he died. Kryuchkov and Yazov, however, did get to Vnukovo Airport ahead of their pursuers from Yeltsin's headquarters, and hopped a plane for Gorbachev's resort. They were accompanied by Anatoli Lukyanov, chairman of the Soviet parliament. Though he is an old friend and law-school classmate of Gorbachev's, Lukyanov played at best an ambiguous role in the coup; he was not a member of the Emergency Committee but has been accused by some of Yeltsin's aides of being the mastermind...
Protected by a sandbag bunker, Anatoli Seryak peers down the barrel of his rifle, scanning passing cars in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius for drive-by snipers. He is one of two men on forward sentry duty for OMON, a paramilitary unit of the Soviet Interior Ministry. Nearby, an armored personnel carrier stands guard in front of the unit's fortified headquarters. Two more sentries pace the roof. "If they try anything, there won't be a problem," says Seryak, 33, his trademark black beret tilted high on his forehead. "We're always ready to fight...
...intended to become a unified and permanent opposition to the Communist Party, or at least its hard-line faction. Organizers include former Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze; Alexander Yakovlev, an adviser to President Mikhail Gorbachev who is sometimes called the "architect of perestroika"; and Mayors Gavril Popov of Moscow and Anatoli Sobchak of Leningrad...
...make sure the ban was enforced, the President took police powers away from the city council and turned them over to the national Interior Ministry, which mustered a virtual army of trucks, water cannons and troops in riot gear. Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov spoke of "looming threats," and Anatoli Karpychev, deputy editor of Pravda, the party daily, charged that radicals were planning a coup. Declared he: "Preparations for the final storming of the Kremlin have already begun...
...evening, the main television news program, Vremya, devoted its entire 17-minute opening segment to anti-Yeltsin diatribes. Soviet television even aired unusual live coverage of the Supreme Soviet as lawmakers voted to censure Yeltsin, 292 to 29, with 27 abstentions. His TV statement, said hard-line parliamentarian Anatoli Chekhoyev, "was tantamount to a declaration of civil...