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This is an unclassified CIA broadcast monitoring listing titled "Comlist: Moscow Consolidated", dated 26 January 1991 and approved for release in February 2010. It catalogues the day's Soviet radio, TV and TASS items by topic. Coverage includes the Persian Gulf war, Foreign Minister Bessmertnykh's trip to the United States, unrest in the Baltic republics, the withdrawal of 50 and 100 ruble banknotes, and India's Republic Day. One entry, a repeat from a Korean-language service, notes world interest in the sighting of a UFO.
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81 65 anon on mongolian ppl's rev party delegation's official visit to beijing 28 jan-2 feb. (5 min: viet 1400) 82 ASIA/PACIFIC 66 "focus on asia and pacific": intvw with mikhail kapitsa on gulf situation (rpt enginter 251210, item 34 on 25 jan list); intvw with kyle (wilson), mbr australian embassy in moscow, marking australia day celebrations 26 jan, noting meetings and sessions devoted to this organized in ussr by ppl interested in australia, giving info on soviet-australian contacts over recent years, highlighting trade and an agmt on contacts between ppl and humanitarian coop during ryzhkov's visit to australia (8.5 min); biragov on kabul's policy of mine clearance (rpt enginter 251210, item 46 on 25 jan list); gennadiy vasilyev paying tribute to republican day in india 26 jan, outlining soviet-indian contacts and noting stands of two countries similar on highly acute intl crisis in gulf area, quoting gorbachev's message to heads of many states on 17 jan in this connection, and shekhar's positive response, also recalling soviet and indian foreign ministers' dialogue in moscow 22 jan (3.5 min). (enginter 0610) 84 67 "focus on asia": intvw with kochetkov, soviet dpty defense minister, head soviet delegation to dprk, noting differences in reunification formulas between north, south (4 min, sent); anon on upcoming visit to china by indian ppl's rev party delegation. (5 min: kor 1100) 85 68 (dmitriy uzeyov) pravda on potential between ussr and se asian countries, citing exchange of business delegations. (5 min: burm 1200) 86 69 corr intvw with diddy hidayat, Indonesian chief delegate to moscow intl consumer goods expo, on significance of this trade fair. (10 min, incl music: indo 1100) 87 70 dmitriyev on nakayama visit to ussr, insisting that both nations should look at complicated issue from world-wide position. (6 min, sent: jap 251200) 88 71 summary anon pravda on ussr's economic ties with niigata pref. (4 min: jap 251000) 89 72 pravda corr manila dispatch on president aquino's political profile. (8 min: viet 1400) 90 73 summary izvestiya on aquino's political career. (5 min: mand 0700) 91 74 anon on deadlock in u.s.-philippine negotiations on u.s. bases. (rpt indo 241530, item 83 on 24 jan list) (thai 1300) 92 TB2701131991TAKE5 93 75 tass corr in bangkok reporting on rush to buy land in northern thailand and its consequence. (3 min: camb 1100 lao 1330) 94 EAST EUROPE 95 76 aleksandr shakhin belgrade report on balkan foreign trade ministers meeting. (rpt portbraz 252300, item 76 on 25 jan list) (spanish 252100) 96 77 igor shamshin quoting col-gen eduard vorobyev, commander of soviet army central group of troops, denying reports that soviet servicemen have been selling weapons to czechoslovak citizens. (250 text sent: tassr 1845) 97 78 "political dialogue": tatyana (koryagina), russian ppl's dpty, economist, on her impressions of recent visit to czechoslovakia and difficulties of perestroyka in ussr. (15 min: hungarian 252000) 98 79 report on csfr plans to cope with oil problems under current circumstances of gulf war. (3 min: romanian 1700) 99 MILITARY 100 80 joint press statement of ussr interior and defense ministries on law
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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. 10 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.