RUSSIA: MARCH COMMEMORATES THREE KILLED DURING 1991 COUP ATTEMPT.(Brief Article)

From: IPR Strategic Business Information Database | Date: August 22, 2001 | Copyright information

Approximately 200 people participated in a march in Moscow on 20 August to place wreaths from President Vladimir Putin and other senior officials at the site where three defenders of the White House were killed during clashes in the August 1991 coup attempt, AP and "The Moscow Times" reported. Meanwhile, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said on Radio Rossiya the same day that he had made "many errors" in the lead-up to the coup, particularly his failure to reform the Commu...

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