Protests in Russia - Protests in the Soviet Union, 1993 Russian Constitutional Crisis, Dissenters March, Putin Must Go, Baltic Way (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Protests in the Soviet Union, 1993 Russian constitutional crisis, Dissenters March, Putin must go, Baltic Way, Black January, 1956 Georgian demonstrations, 1989 Sukhumi riots, Jeltoqsan, Freedom of assembly in Russia, 1968 Red Square demonstration, Phosphorite War, 1958 Grozny riots, Strategy-31, Dushanbe riots, Osh riots, Novocherkassk massacre, Bridge of Flowers, 1965 Yerevan demonstrations, Tiger, 2007 Russian protests. Excerpt: The constitutional crisis of 1993 was a political stand-off between the Russian president and the Russian parliament that was resolved by using military force. The relations between the president and the parliament had been deteriorating for a while. The constitutional crisis reached a tipping point on September 21, when President Boris Yeltsin purported to dissolve the country's legislature (the Congress of People's Deputies and its Supreme Soviet), although the president did not have the power to dissolve the parliament according to the then-current constitution. Yeltsin used the results of the referendum of April 1993 to justify his actions. In response, the parliament declared that the president's decision was null and void, impeached Yeltsin and proclaimed vice president Aleksandr Rutskoy to be acting president. The situation deteriorated at the beginning of October. On Sunday, October 3, demonstrators removed police cordons around the parliament and, urged by their leaders, took over the Mayor's offices and tried to storm the Ostankino television centre. The army, which had initially declared its neutrality, by Yeltsin's orders stormed the Supreme Soviet building in the early morning hours of October 4, and arrested the leaders of the resistance. The ten-day conflict had seen the deadliest street fighting in Moscow since October 1917. According to government estimates, 187 people we...