Word: tass
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After somewhat of an enlivening in the firsttwo years of perestroika, the economy began todecline, interethnic feuds reached bloodshed,people began to experience fear, and in someplaces there is practically dual power," Ligachevsaid in remarks reported by Tass...
...Just as Armenians fled from Azerbaijani pogroms the week before, some 15,000 dependents of the military and KGB divisions stationed in the republic were evacuated. "We could hear shooting in the city," Nadezhda Appakov, an officer's wife, told TASS. "We feared for our children most of all, because those militants stop at nothing." The newspaper Trud reported that a pogrom had begun against the remaining 85,000 ethnic Russians in the republic, but Popular Front officials offered assurances that the Russians would not be attacked by Azerbaijani nationalists. Moscow agreed to hold off on further evacuations...
After hesitating for four days, the Kremlin was finally compelled, in the words of the official news agency TASS, "to take the measure of last resort" and declare a state of emergency. Early Saturday morning, Soviet troops stormed the center of Baku in tanks and armored cars, smashing through makeshift barricades of buses and trucks. The troops exchanged fire with extremists, armed with submachine guns and sniper rifles. Eyewitnesses described streets awash with "pools of blood" and corpses strewn on the road to the highway; there were even unconfirmed reports that Soviet tanks had opened fire on the demonstrators...
...streets. As word of the killing spread, marchers turned out in towns throughout the country. Because of the government's total control of travel and communications, rumors often replaced information. East European news agencies such as Yugoslavia's Tanjug and, in the new world of glasnost, even Moscow's TASS and East Germany's ADN, became important sources of news. They reported that Rumanian army troops had joined in some of the protests, that more soldiers had been executed by the Securitate for refusing to fire into crowds, and that striking workers were threatening to blow up their factories...