Word: ostankino
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...previous week vacationing in Italy after covering the siege of Sukhumi, in Georgia, returned Oct. 3 to find Moscow plunged into bitter fighting. He stopped off at home long enough to catch up on the TV coverage, then headed for the city center, where armed clashes outside the Ostankino television center cut off the broadcast. Correspondent Sally Donnelly, who had recently arrived from Los Angeles to begin a tour of duty in Moscow, was in the midst of a leisurely get-acquainted drive around the capital when she and reporter Ann Simmons found themselves snarled in a riot-caused traffic...