Word: interfax
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Dates: during 1991-1991
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Then there is the matter of Gamsakhurdia's behavior during the tense days surrounding the Aug. 19 coup attempt. On Aug. 20 Interfax, an independent Soviet news service, reported that Gamsakhurdia had agreed to comply with Emergency Committee orders to disarm the Georgian National Guard. Gamsakhurdia dismisses the charge as the work of "common liars who want to slander me." But the fact remains that soon after the coup was set in motion, he ordered the National Guard into the countryside, supposedly on a training exercise. A large portion of the 15,000-strong guard ignored the order and holed...
...Television and Radio, has been systematically chipping away at the policy of openness. He suspended the popular music and information show Vzglyad (View) when it planned to broadcast a discussion of the resignation of Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, who had charged that dictatorship was returning. Kravchenko also forced Interfax, an independent alternative to the official Soviet news agency TASS, out of his headquarters...