Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin19 August 1991
Declares the emergency committee unconstitutional and calls for a general strike and civil resistance.
Russia · Politics / KGB (Committee for State Security). Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Declares the emergency committee unconstitutional and calls for a general strike and civil resistance.
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