Subject: POSTFACTUM NEWS 06.10.93
From: Relis <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 93 13:14:45 +0200
Newsgroups: relcom.politics

POSTFACTUM DAILY NEWS 06/09/93  13.05 					  
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     EMERGENCY CARE CENTER REPORTED 107 VICTIMS DURING LAST DAY
     SECURITY  MINISTRY'S PUBLIC RELATIONS CENTER SAID MOSCOW HAD
QUIET NIGHT
     
     VALERY  ZORKIN  STILL  DID  NOT  DECLARE  HIS RESIGNATION AS
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT HEAD ON OCTOBER 5
     
     OLEG   SOSKOVETS:  GOVERNMENT  NEEDS  ANOTHER  4-5  DAYS  TO
EVALUATE DAMAGE BY DESTRUCTION IN MOSCOW
     
     MOSCOW'S COMMANDANT ALEXANDER KULIKOV: LISTS OF PEOPLE ARMED
BY RUSSIAN SUPREME COUNCIL ARE AS YET UNFOUND
     
     SERGEI   VASILYEV:   CENTRAL   BANK'S   REGULATION   BANNING
CURRENCIES IN RUSSIA IS ABSOLUTELY SENSELESS AND HARMFUL
     
     VASILY  LIPITSKY:  GOVERNMENT DEPRIVING ITSELF OF OPPOSITION
DRIVES ITSELF INTO A DEADLOCK

     
     EMERGENCY CARE CENTER REPORTED 107 VICTIMS DURING LAST DAY
     PF  was  told  in  the Emergency Care Center that during the
past  24 hours it knew of 107 individuals with gunshot wounds. Of
these, 66 sought medical care on their own, 45 were brought in by
ambulance  and  58 were cared for on the spot. Forty-nine wounded
were hospitalized. Ten were killed.
     One  more  person was admitted in the morning on September 6
to be included in the current-day statistics.
     
     SECURITY  MINISTRY'S PUBLIC RELATIONS CENTER SAID MOSCOW HAD
QUIET NIGHT
     PF  was  told  in  the  Security Ministry's public relations
center  that no clashes occurred overnight September 6 in Moscow.
Snipers "at work" were not detected. "On the whole, the night was
quiet," stated a security ministry spokesman.
     
     VALERY  ZORKIN  STILL  DID  NOT  DECLARE  HIS RESIGNATION AS
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT HEAD ON OCTOBER 5
     On  October  5,  the Constitutional Court discussed possible
resignation  of Valery Zorkin, the Constitutional Court chairman.
Late  in  the evening, Valery Zorkin met with Sergei Filatov, the
head  of  the  president's  administration,  and  then  went home
without announcing his decision. According to Nikolai Vitruk, the
Constitutional Court deputy chairman, Valery Zorkin had consented
to resign as he talked with some judges.
     In view of the deputy chairman, there is no guarantee that a
Constitutional  Court  would  survive as a democratic institution
unless Mr. Zorkin went.
     
     OLEG   SOSKOVETS:  GOVERNMENT  NEEDS  ANOTHER  4-5  DAYS  TO
EVALUATE DAMAGE BY DESTRUCTION IN MOSCOW
     The  Russia's  first  deputy  prime minister told so after a
meeting  of  the  taskforce  committee.  "First of all," said Mr.
Soskovets,  "we  must  restore  Ostankino  and make it absolutely
safe."
     Mr.  Soskovets  told newsmen that additional riot police and
defense ministry's troops were brought in Moscow and assured that
the  government  would do its best to have the president's decree
on  the  state  of  emergency  and  the  curfew  in  Moscow fully
enforced.  He  also  said  that  860 persons were detained in the
capital  overnight September 5. Speaking on the current situation
in  Russia,  Mr.  Soskovets said that in general it was stable in
regions.
     The  first  deputy  prime minister contended that mass media
censorship  as such would not be imposed and called on newsmen to
objectively   and   adequately   interpret  the  president's  and
government's steps.
     
     MOSCOW'S COMMANDANT ALEXANDER KULIKOV: LISTS OF PEOPLE ARMED
BY RUSSIAN SUPREME COUNCIL ARE AS YET UNFOUND
     Lt.Gen. Alexander Kulikov told journalists in the evening on
September  5  that  no exact estimate of how many arms were still
held  by  fighters  was  as  yet  available.  The Supreme Council
building is to be examined by sappers. At the same time, said Mr.
Kulikov,  much  arms had been handed out indiscriminately without
any  lists  in the pre-assault night. He reckoned that over 3,500
automatic arms might remain in the White House.
     Asked  about  snappers still firing on civilians from roofs,
Mr.  Kulikov said that "several snappers were arrested this night
and  I  as  Moscow's  commandant ordered others to be shot on the
spot."
     Mr.  Kulikov said the curfew in Moscow will be lifted by him
as soon as the situation reverts to normal.
     
     SERGEI   VASILYEV:   CENTRAL   BANK'S   REGULATION   BANNING
CURRENCIES IN RUSSIA IS ABSOLUTELY SENSELESS AND HARMFUL
     Sergei  Vasilyev,  head  of  the Working Center for economic
reforms with Russia's government, commented on the latest Central
Bank's  regulation  banning  foreign  currencies  in  Russia from
January 1, 1994. He said that such a ban is automatically imposed
in   any   country  reaching  financial  stability;  however,  he
described   this   Central   Bank's  regulation  as  eroding  the
president's decree on attraction of foreign investors.
     
     VASILY  LIPITSKY:  GOVERNMENT DEPRIVING ITSELF OF OPPOSITION
DRIVES ITSELF INTO A DEADLOCK
     Vasily  Lipitsky,  a  Civil  Union  leader,  reaffirmed  the
Union's previous response to the September 21 decree of President
Boris  Yeltsin.  He said that "the government depriving itself of
the opposition drives itself into a deadlock."
     Mr. Lipitsky also announced that the Civil Union is ready to
run  for  elections whenever they are held for the sake of saving
what  is  left of the democracy and to submit its electoral list.
Mr. Lipitsky voiced concern about fates of the Federation Council
which   was  previously  considered  as  an  alternative  to  the
parliament and which now is questioned.