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This unclassified CIA Foreign Broadcast Information Service comlist, dated 12 June 1991, catalogs Moscow radio, television and TASS items broadcast that day. Entries are grouped by region and topic and cover the RSFSR presidential elections, Bessmertnykh's visit to Germany, Lukyanov in London, the G-7 summit, Afghanistan, Cambodia and Soviet military matters. Brief feature items mention a close encounter of the third kind reported by a Latvian couple and a listener's letter about flying objects.
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baltic fleet admiral ivanov receiving soviet embassy officials, commander of belgian armed forces and head of antwerp port, incl brief interview with admiral ivanov. (1.5 min: tv 0900) 93 soviet navy c-in-c admiral vladimir chernavin on 50th anniversary of german attack on soviet union and lessons to be learnt from this action, noting that combat readiness is state necessity. (400 text sent: tassr 0520 tasse 1425; 3 min: german 1600) 112 SPACE/SCIENCE 113 94 anon on recent forum held in paris re soviet technology, with soviet motor engineer summing up its results and reactions of french experts, stressing need for pursuing soviet partners of strength of its technology. (17 min: frenchinter 061800 111800) 114 95 "science and engineering": boris belitskiy on losses made by energiya and moscow narodnyy bank from juno mission; belitskiy answers bolton (uk) listeners question on launching of juno mission which was broadcast on soviet television; bognor regis listener on possibility that long term exposure of radio waves could have long term effect on health, belitskiy outlines soviet scientists studies on this subject. (10 min: enguk 2000) 115 NATIONALITIES 116 96 vitaliy gurov on nine republics recognition of necessity for renewal, with stumbling blocks over sovereignty being removed. (rpt enginter 081210, item 82 on 8 jun list) (beng 111200) 117 97 vitaliy gurov on implications of new union treaty, recalling recent meeting as key to its conclusion and noting its two main bones of contention. (rpt enginter 111210, item 95 on 11 jun list) (engna 0000 spanla 0000 hebrew 1600 amharic 111600 somali 111700 korean 0900 mand 112200) 118 98 tass corr albert kochetkov tbilisi dispatch, on recent incident when armed platoon of national guard entered georgian garage pool with aim of seizing georgian comparty property. (330 text sent: tassr 1130) 119 99 anon kazan corr on two presidential elections underway in tatarstan and rsfsr, noting tatarstan supreme soviet decision that republic should not participate in rsfsr presidential elections officially, but those wishing to vote would be given opportunity to do so. (5 min sent: mayak 0455) 120 100 sergey vorobyev interview with kazakhstan deputy premier, yevgeniy babakhanov, on efforts by inter-republican commission to help foster economic progress. (3.5 min: enginter 1210 1510 1810 2110 enguk 2000 portbraz 2300 german 1600 persian 1430 hungarian 2000 serbo 2000) 121 TB1306143591TAKE6 122 RSFSR 123 101 gorbachev's remarks to journalists at moscow polling station. (400 text sent: tassr 1505 tasse 1705; 350 text sent: tassr 1249; 3 min sent: rtv 1700 tv 1530 enginter 2110 portbraz 2300 spanla 2300; 2-1 min: enginter 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 2100 2200 engna 2300 enguk 2000 german 1600 1700 afrikaans 1700 1900 amharic 1600/twice/ somali 1700 swahili 1800 greek 2000 turkish 1800 arabic 1500 hebrew 1600 1700 hungarian 2000 serbo 2000/twice/; brief: rtv 2000) 124 102 vremya 12 jun interview with gorbachev on rsfsr presidential elections. (6-4 min sent: tv 1530 1800 home 1900) 125 103 tass corr boris zverev on 12 jun rsfsr presidential elections, quoting yeltsin's remarks to journalists outside polling station at moscow's frunzenskiy rayon, where he cast his vote in rsfsr presidential elections. (330 text sent: tassr 1101 tasse 1148; 2 min sent: rossii 1100; brief:
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