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This CIA Foreign Broadcast Information Service listing, dated 6 November 1990, indexes the day's Soviet radio, television and TASS output. It mostly covers the 73rd anniversary of the October Revolution, the Persian Gulf crisis, unrest in Moldova and the draft union treaty. It also logs reports on Germany, Afghanistan, Cambodia and the Soviet economy. One entry notes a report on a new almanac of UFOs that had just come off the press in Moscow.
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122 100 report on 6 nov press briefing given by grigoriy revenko, ussr presidential council member, on crisis in republics, incl draft of new union treaty to be published shortly. (4 min, sent: tv 1800) 123 101 tass corr albert maloveryan tallinn dispatch on estonian parliament deputies calling for resignation of estonian govt. (350 text sent: tasse 1300) 124 102 tass corr galina kuchina riga dispatch describing views of estonian academician mikhail bronshtein and latvian farmer union chmn albert kauls, re possible failure of latvian agrarian policy, noting republican parliament second reading of land reform bill. (420 text: tasse 1916) 125 103 vitaliy gurov on situation in moldova slowly returning to normal, noting political solution remains to be secured, citing local leaders that coming consultations to stabilize situation should be started from scratch. (5-3 min: enginter 1210 1510 1810 2110 portbraz 2200 engna 2300 enguk 2000 german 1600 spanish 2100 portuguese 2100 persian 1500 dari 1500 arabic 1500 turkish 1400 1830 albanian 1600 bulgarian 1700 hungarian 2000 romanian 1700 polish 1600 serbo 1700 indo 1300 1500 burm 1430 tagalog 1300 lao 1300 korean 1100 mand 1000 1400) 126 104 summary kishinev dispatch rounding up reports on situation in moldova. (approx 500 words: tassr 1433) 127 105 tass corrs fedor angeli/valeriy demidetskiy kishinev dispatch on situation in moldovan cities of kishinev and dubossary, noting cancellation of gosr parades in effort to reduce tension. (450 text sent: tassr 1642 tasse 1835) 128 106 anon kishinev dispatch on stabilization of situation in moldavia, noting 6 nov petr luchinsky-led meeting of moldavian parliament conciliation commission with gagauz conciliation commission in komrat, southern moldavia, citing lyudmila skalnaya appeal to moldavian women on ending ethnic confrontation. (500 text sent: tasse 1620) 129 107 r.i. khasbulatov, first dep chmn rsfsr supsov, intvw on 'russian parliamentary herald', on start of 500-day economic recovery program. (18 min: tv 1720) 130 108 tass corr natalia potapova sverdlovsk dispatch on funeral for workers who died following chemical factory explosion, quoting yeltsin remarks to relatives. (rpt tasse 051353, item 96 on 5 nov list) (engna 0000) 131 109 summary yan khutoryanskiy pravda on resent asbest tragedy following blast at factory, quoting dpty minister of defense industry nikolay (pozyrev) that by 15 nov he will be in a position to give information as to how accident happened. (4.5 min: mayak 0615) 132 110 intvw with (petr solovyev), chmn of board of all-russian commodity exchange joint stock company, on founding conference of new organization and its aims. (3 min: mayak 0800) 133 111 intvw with leader of executive body of religious moslem communities of ashkhabad, on inter-ethnic conflicts in country, criticizing turkmen nationalists and agitators who are trying to split society. (3.5 min: home 0700) 134 SOVIET ECONOMY 135 112 "direct contact": intvw with peruvian listener adolfo tapia on market economy; leonid levchenko gives further explanation of market economy in ussr. (9.5 min: spanla 0200) 136 113 "international diary": incl zholkver on brussels report on state of soviet economy prepared by western experts, just published, noting things mentioned in report are very similar to those mentioned at solemn sitting
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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.