news · 07 October 1993 · 32 years ago
Russia: 'They won't leave us alive. I beg you, call the embassies': As tanks bombarded the White House on Monday, Alexander Rutskoi made a desperate plea at 2pm by telephone to Valery Zorkin, then chairman of the Constitutional Court. A Russian journalist in Mr Rutskoi's office at the time recorded the self-proclaimed president's side of the conversation. 'Valera' is a diminutive of Valery, used among friends
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