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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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enginter 1600 1700 1800 1900 2100 enguk 2000 hungarian 2000 serbo 2000) 126 104 tass corr boris zverez on 12 jun russian federation presidential elections, where journalists attention was focused on polling stations attended by country's leaders, briefly quoting gorbachev and yeltsin's remarks to journalists at their respective polling stations. (270 text: tasse 1650) 127 105 silayev's 12 jun remarks to journalists at one of moscow's polling stations, on expected outcome of rsfsr presidential elections. (150 text sent: tasse 1659 tassr 1345; brief: tv 1700 rtv 2000) 128 106 tass corr yuriy kozmin on 12 jun rsfsr presidential elections, briefly quoting bakatin interview to soviet journalists at moscow polling station. (220 text sent: tassr 1107 tasse 1141) 129 107 tass andrey surzhanskiy on 12 jun rsfsr presidential elections, including brief interview with election candidate nikolay ryzhkov. (300 text sent: tassr 1105) 130 108 vasiliy ivanovich interview with vasiliy kazakov, chairman of central electoral commission, discussing elections underway in russian federation. (3 min sent: mayak 0415) 131 109 anon on remarks to press by gorbachev, yeltsin and ryzhkov at polling stations where they voted at russian federation elections. (4 min: greek 2000) 132 110 vyacheslav solovyev providing background to rsfsr elections, noting preceding crisis making establishment of presidency necessary, dismissing fears of institution of dictatorial powers and stressing unique opportunity facing electorate. (6-3 min: enginter 1210 1510 enguk 2000 spanla 2300 german 1600 persian 1430 amharic 1600 somali 1700 swahili 1800 turkish 1800 hungarian 2000 urdu 1200 burm 1200 1430 hind 1300 indo 1300 beng 1200 thai 1300 camb 1100 1230 lao 1030 1330 viet 1200 1400; anon: korean 1100 mand 1000 1400) 133 111 sergey dorenko rounding up progress of rsfsr presidential elections, noting some concern caused by violations of voting procedures, with omission of official seal or signature of electoral commission member on reverse sides of some voting slips. (4 min sent: rtv 1400) 134 112 sergey ryabin on rsfsr presidential elections where ballot papers have been registered incorrectly at various polling stations, noting moscow military polling station obstruction of election observers. (4 min sent: tv 1700) 135 113 aleksandr ruvinskiy report from one of moscow's constituencies on rsfsr presidential elections, noting business-like approach of people to elections with no violations of voting procedures. (3 min: mayak 0510) 136 114 special corr vladimir korablev interview with tamara (maksimova) from central electoral commission, providing election statistics for various specified russian regions and types of questions asked by electorate. (7 min sent: mayak 1515) 137 115 report over video from central electoral commission in moscow on rsfsr presidential election, including interview with deputy chairman maksimova, noting that more than 50 percent of voters had already taken part in voting procedures. (3 min: tv 1800) 138 TB1306143691TAKE7 139 116 anon linking leningrad referendum on name change to rsfsr presidential election, examining dispute over former issue. (4 min: engna 112300) 140 117 (anatoliy chiuchnik) on recent round-table discussion between rsfsr presidential candidates, except yeltsin, giving their views on imminent
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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.