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This Central Intelligence Agency release is a consolidated monitoring list of Soviet broadcasts for 19 January 1991. It catalogues Radio Moscow, TASS and television items by region and topic. Most items cover the Persian Gulf war, the crisis in Lithuania and the Baltics, Soviet domestic politics, and foreign relations. One entry records an anonymous 20-minute Korean-language program on world media interest in an unidentified flying object. The list gives no further details about that program.
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CLAS UNCLASSIFIED CLAS UNCLASSIFIED AFSN TB2001101091C SUBJ TAKEALL-- Comlist: Moscow Consolidated 19 Jan 91 Full Text Superzone of Message 1 GLOBAL 2 1 account of vitaly churkin's 19 jan soviet foreign ministry press briefing on situation in persian gulf and forthcoming soviet/american summit. (500 text: tasse 2002; segment on gulf developments: 450 text sent: tasse 1447 tassr 1350 arabic 1500; 3 2 "moscow radio friends' club": incl item on mideast war; listeners who wrote to radio about their leisure time and books they have recently read. (arabic 1600) 3 "point of view": vsevolod mikhaylov noting french opposition parties' call for govt to apply pressure on soviet leadership bodies and suspend aid to ussr due to vilnius incidents, violence does not help to solve thorny inter-ethnic problems and death of innocent ppl created indignation and protest in ussr (4 min); aleksandr smailin in bratislava/(sergey shivikin) in budapest on czechoslovakia considering its membership of wto's military organization (rpt enginter 181210, item 94 on 18 jan list); "france and belgium as seen by soviet press": komsomolskaya pravda examines france's reaction to hostilities in gulf, trud notes not everyone in france agrees with taking part in gulf war, pravda highlights mitterrand's call to iraq to withdraw from kuwait to avoid further damage, rabotchaya tribuna notes belgian's concerns in 1991, za rubezhom publishes intvw with french contemporary painter currently exhibiting in moscow (3.5 min). (frenchinter 181800) 4 "update": incl an mp, and deputy chairman of parliamentary committee for afghan war veterans (name indistinct) on gulf war, he recently visited iraq, war is not a solution, he blames war on saddam's intransigence (3.5 min); anon on moscow news conference by leaders of democratic russia on lithuanian istuation, generally critical of soviet union's leaders, afanasyev says president opposes true sovereignty for republics (2.5 min); leonid zhukov who visited moldova and georgia on lack of firm economic plans for this year in those republics, other economic problems of georgia noted (6 min). (enginter 0810 0000) 5 "focus on asia and pacific": incl aleksandr pogodin notes military action in gulf gives rise to questions about its effect on new world situation (rpt enginter 181210, item 60 on 18 jan list); mikhail krystov on seoul talks between soviet delegation headed by maslyukov and south korean delegation head by senior presidential counsellor, agenda of talks outlined, heads of both delegations underline that ussr and south korea have big potential for cooperation (2.5 min); aleksandr nikolayev on beijing announcemet that delegation of supreme people's assembly of laos led by it chairman will arrive in china 20 jan, noting visit is expected to give fresh impetus to rapidly developing bilateral cooperation (3.5 min); intvw with artur chilingarov, deputy chairman of state committee for hydrometeorlogy, he supervised soviet scientists' research in antarctic region, he gives details of his visit last month to chile to take part in special consultative conference, info given of projects discussed at conference providing for turning antarctica into world nature preserve, Approved for Release 2/2010
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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. 9 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.