Documents / FOIA release
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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baltic republics. (3 min: bulgarian 1600) 108 85 gorbachev 19 jan telegram to azerbaijan ssr and all working people on first anniv of tragic events in republic. (100 text sent: tassr 1030 tasse 1204; brief: tv 1530 1800 enginter 1600 1700 1800 1900 frenchinter 1800 czech/slovak 1800 polish 1600) 109 TB2001101591TAKE6 110 86 andrey trapeznikov on situation in tallinn, describing rising tension in republic caused by general strike. (6 min, sent: mayak 0913) 111 87 riga dispatch on stmt released by all-baltic cmtee for public salvation in latvia, assuming power in republic. (300 text sent: tassr 1537) 112 88 account appeal by all-latvian people's assembly to gorbachev, over yeltsin's anti-people document signed with leaders of supsovs of rsfsr, estonia, latvia and lithuania. (3 min, sent: home 1600) 113 89 tass corr fedor angeli kishinev dispatch on proceedings at 19 jan plenum of moldovan comparty cc'plenum. (300 text: tassr 1502) 114 90 igor vasilkov, politologist igor dyumin intvw with members and leaders of rupublican party of russia, vyacheslav shostakovskiy, stepan sulakshin, igor yakovenko, on situation in baltic republics, particularly in lithuania. (5 min: rossii 1100) 115 91 summary izvestiya on consortium, members of which are avtoexport, that is large scale enterprises of russia, ukraine and belorussia, and central european investment fund, which is most favorite to become shareholder of ikarus and csepel motor works. (5 min: hungarian 182000) 116 92 report on abolishment of ukrainian ministry of consumer services, incl intvw with vice-president of ukrsoyuzservis on tasks of this organization and way it differs from old ministry. (3 min: mayak 1630) 117 93 "welcome to our home." (rpt greekcy 181730, item 121 on 18 jan list) (greek 2000) 118 USSR SUPSOV 119 94 excerpts gorbachev's address at 16 jan supsov. (6 min: viet 1200) 120 95 vitaliy gurov on supsov session that ended 16 jan in moscow. (rpt enginter 171210, item 110 on 17 jan list) (burm 1430 viet 1200 camb 1100 1230) 121 96 vitaliy gurov reviewing proceedings at now ended soviet parliament session, focusing on economic aspects of debates, noting session strongly favored transition to market economy. (4 min: enginter 1210 1510 1810 2110 spanla 2300 arabic 1600 bulgarian 1600 romanian 1700 polish 1600 serbo 2000) 122 97 (rogachev) on longest supsov meeting, noting laws approved. (4.5 min: mand 182200) 123 LIFE IN USSR 124 98 ussr council of ministers resolution to stabilize and improve supply of food in ussr. (c/r tasse 182151, item 130 on 18 jan list) (brief: portbraz 0000 spanla 0000) 99 "who's who": live studio discussion presented by igor fesunenko with participation of ruslan khasbulatov, first dep chmn rsfsr supsov, and gennadiy yanayev, vice president ussr, on various aspects of political, socioeconomic situation in ussr. (1 hr 17 min, sent: tv 1215 tassr 1804; yanayev only: brief: enginter 2200 2300) 126 100 people's deputy (dobov) on his booklet on reform, political situation in country. (3.5 min: mand 0700) 127 101 topical intvw: political observer dmitriy biryukov intvw with prof, zdenek mlynar, on difficulties incurred in changing old status quo and
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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.