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This is a Central Intelligence Agency release of a Foreign Broadcast Information Service television program summary, dated 20 October 1991. It lists the contents of the Russian Television "Vesti" newscast broadcast from Moscow on 19 October 1991. The items cover the economic treaty signing, Yeltsin's veto, unrest in Soviet prisons, the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site and other domestic and foreign news. The final press review item notes that a UFO congress opened in Moscow that day.
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UNCLAS 3Z/PMU STV TAB/MOSTV VIDEO 2
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COUNTRY: USSR
SUBJ: TELEVISION PROGRAM SUMMARY 192100: MRT91-163
SOURCE: MOSCOW RUSSIAN TELEVISION NETWORK IN RUSSIAN 2100 GMT 19 OCT 91
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1. (0012) ROUNDUP OF THIS WEEK'S EVENTS -- SIGNING OF ECONOMIC TREATY, WITH VIDEO OF CEREMONY. REPORT OF YELTSIN'S VETO IN RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT. USSR SUPREME SOVIET MEETS ON MONDAY. GENERAL COMMENTARY ON CURRENT EVENTS.
2. (0137) INGUSH CITIZENS PROTEST ELECTIONS IN CHECHEN-INGUSH. YELTSIN DEMANDS THAT CHECHON CONGRESS HEED RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT. NEGATIVE REACTION.
3. (0146) UN PROCLAIMS COMPETITION FOR CHERNOBYL CLEAN-UP.
4. (0200) PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN KALMYKIA TODAY. VIDEO SHOWS POLLING.
5. (0234) AZERBAIJAN AND UZBEKISTAN SIGN TREATY. VIDEO SHOWS PRESIDENTS SIGNING.
6. (0252) AZERBAIJAN WILL ONLY SEND OBSERVERS TO NEW UNION PARLIAMENT.
7. (0311) COMMENTARY ON MOTIVES OF CERTAIN REPUBLICS WHICH HAVE SIGNED THE ECONOMIC TREATY.
8. (0332) REPORT ON SABUROV'S VIEWS OF THE BANKING UNION. DETAILS OF ECONOMIC TREATY STIPULATIONS ON THE BANKING UNION. INTERVIEW WITH SABUROV ON THE BANKING SYSTEM. VIDEO SHOWS SABUROV. (PROC)
9. (0508) EXPERTS FROM 'KOMMERSANT' COMMENT ON PLANS FOR NEW BANKING SYSTEM.
10. (0549) REPORT ON SURVEY OF PUBLIC OPINION ON WESTERN AID. FIGURES GIVEN ON SUPPORT FOR AID IN VARIOUS SECTORS.
11. (0656) CONFERENCE IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINE OPENS IN TEHRAN; FIGHTING CONTINUES IN CROATIA; NUCLEAR TEST CARRIED OUT IN USA; HOSTAGE WIFE INVITED TO LEBANON; ITALIAN PUBLISHER APPEALS TO GORBACHEV TO PRESERVE LENIN'S MAUSOLEUM - THE BODY SHOULD STAY WHERE UNCLAS 3Z/PMU STV TAB/MOSTV VIDEO 2
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