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Kasparov Warns of ‘Chaos’ in Russia
nytimes.com — After serving a five-day sentence for leading an opposition march, Garry Kasparov, the former chess champion, warned today that Russia was heading toward chaos under President Vladimir V. Putin.
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- RoyLuhza, on 11/30/2007, -0/+1Kasparov is correct... Read on re the final nail in the coffin of constitutional rule in Russia.
Boris Yeltsin was trash, an alcoholic thug whose total lack of morals made him a perfect choice to be the figurehead of the push that would defeat parliamentary rule in The Soviet Union. His legacy is that the life expectancy of a Russian male has gone from sixty five to fifty eight years.
The Russian constitutional crisis of 1993 began in earnest on September 21, when Russian President Boris Yeltsin dissolved the country's legislature (Congress of People's Deputies and its Supreme Soviet), which opposed his moves to consolidate power and push forward with unpopular neoliberal reforms. Yeltsin's decree of September 21 contravened the then-functioning constitution; on October 15, after the end of the crisis, he ordered a referendum on a new constitution.
The Congress rejected the decree and voted to remove Yeltsin from presidency through impeachment. His estranged Vice President, Alexander Rutskoy, was sworn in accordance with the existing constitution as Acting President. On September 28, public protests against Yeltsin's government began in earnest on the streets of Moscow where the first blood was shed. The army remained under Yeltsin's control, which determined the outcome of the crisis. The legislators found themselves barricaded inside the White House of Russia parliament building. For the next week, anti-Yeltsin protests grew, until a mass uprising erupted in the city on October 2. Russia was on the brink of civil war. At this point the security and military elites threw their support behind Yeltsin, besieged the parliament building, and through the use of tank artillery nearly destroyed the building and cleaned it of the elected legislature.
Crushing the "second October Revolution," which, as mentioned, saw the deadliest street fighting in Moscow since 1917, cost hundreds of lives. Police said, on October 8, that 187 had died in the conflict and 437 had been wounded. Unofficial sources named much higher numbers, up to 1500 dead, mostly inside the White House. In any event, nearly all victims were killed by troops loyal to Yeltsin. Russian Army and Interior Ministry lost 12 soldiers, at least 9 of which were accidentally killed by their own men. It had been a close call; Yeltsin owed his victory to the military, the former KGB, and the Ministry of Interior, themselves like their counterparts in the Pentagon and the CIA tools of the Zionist Ashkenazi hereinafter Zionazi’s, not to popular support from any place in Russia at all.
Has been politicians, Tony Major former PM of Great Britain for instance, are coming out of the woodwork describing Yeltsin as a champion of democracy, nothing could be further from the truth. He should have been arraigned on capital charges with his mates in the tanks, as a traitor.
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