Subject: Russian TV coverage
From: [email-masked] (Serge Viznyuk)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1993 15:22:48 -0400 (EDT)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.soviet,relcom.talk,relcom.politics,relcom.fido.su.general

From: Vladimir Makarenko <[email-masked]>
 
Forwarded message:
I have just got a message from my friend who was looking Ostankino
9p.m. news program. He wrote his message in latin russian so I'll try
to translate it (sorry for lost style and idioms.)

>
> Tol'ko chto zakonchilas' programma Wremja:
>
Program Time just finished:
 
> El'cin s opuhshej rozhej wyshel iz limuzina na Pushke i
> goworil s narodom. Narod brosal chepchiki.
Eltsin with swollen face got out from limo on Pushkin Square and was
talking with people. People had been throwing up their caps.
 
>
> Poka chto na 11 dekabrja ukazom El'cina naznacheny
> perewybory prezidenta i parlamenta.
>
So far the re-election of parlament and president is scheduled on
December 11 by the Eltsin's decree.
 
> Samozwanec Rutskoi izdal kuchu poprawok k zakonodatel'stwu,
> po kotorym za newypolnenie prikazow nowogo usatogo prezidenta
> ot konfiskazii imuschestwa do rasstrela.
Pretender Rutskoi issued a heap of amendments to (actual) legislature,
according to which for disobedience to the orders of the new
moustached president one will get beginning from confiscation of one's
property up to death penalty.
 
>
> W Moskwe est' kakie-to woiska, kakie nikto ne znaet,
> soldaty molchat.
>
There are somewhat troops in Moscow, nobody knows what, soldiers keep
silence.
 
> Grachev goworit: "Ne zlite armiju, a to potom nas nikto
> ne ostanowit"
Grachev says:"Don't anger army, otherwise nobody will stop us later".
 
>
> Parlament zasedaet, khotja ssylajas' na trudnosti s biletami
> (kak studenty posle kanikul) priekhalo lish' 400-500 tadeputow
> , nuzhno 689 shtuk, chtoby chego-to postanowit'.
>
Parlament is on his session, however reffering to difficulties of
buying tickets to Moscow (like students after vacations), so far came
just 400-500 deputies, but what is nessesary is 689 pieces (quorum) in order to
decree anything.
 
> Bor'ka goworit, chto dialog ne wozmozhen, t.k. takogo
> organa wlasti, ka Parlament bol'she net, on ego uprazdnil,
> a za 1-2-3 dnja primet Ukaz po bor'be s prestupnostju i
> w sootwetstwii s nim budet ebat' Khasbulatowa i izhe s nim.
>
Bor'ka says that dialog isn't possible since such body of power as the
parlament doesn't exist anymore as he has abolished it, but in 1-2-3
days he will issue a decree on fight with crime and according to the
decree will .... Khazbulatov & Co.
 
> U belogo doma barrikady, na etot raz kommunisty s krasnymi
> znamenami, babul'ki s portretami Osi i dedki s kostyljami.
> Zhrut bormotukhu, delajut kokteil Molotowa, komu-to razdajut
> awtomaty, krugom wyworochennyje bulyzhniki. Sobirajut
> neizwestno na chto "den'gi" (3-h i 5-ti rublewki w shapke,
> kak medjaki) i wymogajut u zhurnalistow za s'emku waljutu.
>
There are barricades around the White House, this time it is
communists with red banners, old women with portraits of Osya, and old
men with crutches. They drink cheap wine, make Molotov's coctail,
distribute automatic guns, all around there are cobble-stones picked out from
pavement.
 
> W celom w Moskwe spokoino i mirno, narodu naplewat',
> kak eto chasche wsego bywaet.
Generally it's calm and peacefull in Moscow, people don't care as it
is usually happened.
 
>
> Pokhozhe chto armija i milizija deputatow ne podderzhiwaet
> i budet za El'tsina.
Seems that army and milicia don't support deputies and will support
Eltsin.
 
Vladimir.