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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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IT IS. 12. (0912) FADEYEVA REPORTS ON THE SEMIPALATINSK NUCLEAR TEST SITE, WHICH USED TO BE VERY SECRET. VIDEO SHOWS STEPPE AND TESTS. INTERVIEW WITH PEOPLE'S DEPUTY COL PETRUSHENKO ON THE USE OF NUCLEAR POWER FOR PEACEFUL PURPOSES. 13. (1115) SAJKUDIS DECIDES TO STUDY THE POSSIBILITDY OF HOLDING A NUREMBERG-STYLE TRIAL OF BOLSHEVISM. 14. (1137) ESTONIA REFUSES DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH N. KOREA. (PROC) 15. (1152) V. SKVORTSOV REPORTS ON UNREST IN SOVIET PRISONS INTERVIEW WITH S. KOVALEV, CHAIRMAN OF HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE, ON THE SITUATION IN SOVIET PRISONS. VIDEO SHOWS CONVICTS, CELLS. 16. (1303) S. GERASIMOV REPORTS ON VODKA SITUATION IN KRASNOYARSK. VIDEO SHOWS DRINKERS. 17. (1355) STAVROPOL: VALERIY KUTS REPORTS ON GRAFFITI IN THE TOWN CALLING FOR RELEASE OF LUKYANOV, AND HANDS OFF CPSU. 18. (1443) RUSSIAN KOMSOMOL HAS CHANGED ITS NAME. MET IN MOSCOW TODAY. 19. (1506) A. DADYKO REPORTS ON THE QUESTIONS OF PHILOSOPHY JOURNAL, WHICH IS EXPERIENCING HARD TIMES. INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR OF ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSHOP WHERE PHILOSOPHICAL BOOKS CAN STILL BE FOUND. DEMAND FOR PHILOSOPHICAL LITERATURE IS HIGH. 20. (1621) SYMPOSIUM OF NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS OPENED IN ST PETERSBURG TODAY. 21. (1648) RUSSIAN BUSINESSMEN MET IN MOSCOW'S KREMLIN PALACE OF CONGRESSES TODAY. VIDEO REPORT ON THE GATHERING OF RUSSIAN COMMODITY AND RAW MATERIAL EXCHANGE. INTERVIEW WITH BUSINESSMAN. INTERVIEW WITH BROKER TROFIMOVSKAYA. 22. (1734) L. VAREBRUS REPORTS ON PREVIEW OF ROCK AND ROLL COMPETITION IN MOSCOW'S LUZHNIKI PARK. VIDEO SHOWS DANCERS. 23. (1854) SPORTS. 24. (2000) REPORT ON PROGRAM ON SOVIET PUTSCH WHICH WILL BE SHOWN ON RUSSIAN TV TOMORROW. THE PROGRAM IS A JOINT PRODUCTION WITH DER SPIEGEL. IT INCLUDES FILM OF THE INTERROGATION OF THE PLOTTERS. THE FILM WILL BE SHOWN AT ABOUT 2035 HOURS. 25. (2043) REVIEW OF CENTRAL PRESS; REPORT ON SUICIDE OF ANOTHER CPSU OFFICIAL; RADIATION SCARE IN MOSCOW; RUMORS ON SOVIET GOLD SALES; UFO CONGRESS OPENED IN MOSCOW TODAY. 20/0543Z OCT BT
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