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Comlist: Moscow Consolidated 29 Dec 90

Central Intelligence Agency · 1990-12-29 · 8 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This unclassified Central Intelligence Agency message dated 29 December 1990 is a consolidated list of Soviet broadcast and TASS items from Moscow for that day. It summarizes more than 100 items on topics including the Gulf crisis, disarmament, Soviet foreign relations, nationalities issues, Gorbachev's economic decrees and the Congress of People's Deputies. The only UFO reference is a note that a Radio Moscow "Moscow Mailbag" program included discussions on UFOs.

  • p. 1 …khokhlov, head of intl bank for economic cooperation, discussing what awaits countries, mbrs of council for…
  • p. 2 …incl vsevolod mikhaylov reviewing soviet-french relations in 1990, highlighting cultural cooperation (3.5 min); summary…

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70 54 ivanov recalling trial of jap war criminals in khabarovsk 41 years ago. (4 min: mand 1000 1400)

71 55 anon on nodong sinmum report concerning south korean president's recent visit to ussr, rejecting assertion that visit obstructed peaceful unification of korea. (5-4 min: camb 1100 viet 1000)

72 56 anon on rok president no's speech to new cabinet. (4 min, poorest: kor 0900)

73 57 "ussr-malaysia friendship program": intvw with anwar bin abdullah, sec gen malaysia's congress of employee unions in public administration and civil service, on his visit o ussr. (5 min: mayal 1000)

74 58 feature on soviet-thai relations, incl intvw with thai ambassador to ussr. (rpt thai 151100, item 66 on 15 dec list) (thai 1100)

75 EAST EUROPE

76 59 anon on opinion by soviet deputies on albanion issue. (9 min: kor 0900)

77 60 report on signing of trade and payments agmt with bulgaria, marking process toward soviet-bulgarian market relations. (5 min: bulgarian 1700)

78 61 vladimir potakov on romanian-soviet econ ties in 1990 -- in general terms. (5 min: romanain 1700)

79 NATIONALITIES

62 anatoliy (tutunik) on planned temporary economic agmt between republics, noting most problems are linked to need to stabilize economy, citing discussions at cpd and conf of republican and national leaders, highlighting problems generated by rsfsr decision on its budget, quoting viktor kucherenko, chmn of union parliaments planning, financial and budget commission, that it would be wrong for individual republics to try and solve their problems at expense of others. (3.5 min: enginter 1210 1510 1810 2110 enguk 2000 arabic 1500 persian 1500 greek 2100 engaf 1830 swahili 1730 bulgarian 1700 polish 1600 serbo 1700 kor 1100; attrib kurnikov: mand 1300; anon, 12 min: indo 1300 1500; 6-5 min: camb 1230 lao 1300 burm 1430)

81 TB3012142090TAKE4

82 63 "ussr today": report on intvw with various sov ppl's deputies on ussr establishment in 1922, when all republics signed treaty. (4.5 min: mand 1300)

83 64 video report on russian countryside, describing state of agri, showing rotting crops, delapidated farms. (rpt tv 281800, item 81 on 28 dec list) (tv 0930)

84 65 dmitriy bubyakin yakutsk dispatch on yeltsin visit, reviewing his activities during 3-day tour, quoting yeltsin remarks to local inhabitants in village of saskylakh (60 words). (300 text: tasse 1118 tassr 0929; yeltsin only, brief: home 1000 1400 enginter 1600 1700 1800 1900)

85 66 "rsfsr parliamentary herald": igor zbronzhko, rsfsr ppl's dpty, intvwing two of authors of rsfsr law on enterprises and entrepreneurial activity, v. shumeyko, and a.m. akhmetov, explaining implications of law, which comes into force on 1 jan 1991. (16 min: tv 1600)

86 67 video report on ceremony for conferring russian state awards in spheres of literature and art, quoting silayev speech on occasion. (1.5 min, fyi sent: tv 1800; one min: mayak 1630)

87 68 yevgeniy (arapov), sec of council of federation of independent tus of rsfsr, on aim of an appeal by rsfsr independent tus to assess situation in country, which is extremely complicated, says ppl are currently losing faith in improvement of their lives, stressing urgent measures need to be

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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 8 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.