The political life of the country (1989)

CBC building in the evening.

The deputies go to the First Congress of People's Deputies.

MPs up and down the escalators.

Room.

Mikhail Gorbachev at the podium.

MPs vote (open vote).

Academician Sakharov sitting on the stairs in the hall of PDR.

Russian Patriarch Alexy II lowers the ballot in the ballot box.

Vote Boris Yeltsin, Mikhail Gorbachev at the polling station.

Mikhail Gorbachev gestures on the podium.

Yeltsin gesturing.

Boris Yeltsin in the crowd of reporters on the street - from the top.

Lobby Congress: G.H.Popov costs.

The presidium of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin talk.

MPs are arguing in the room.

The passage through the territory of the Kremlin's Trinity Gate.

Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin's handshake.

The rally, there are policemen.

Flag of the Soviet Union on the building of CDS.

Statement by members of the union republics.

Burning candles, praying and crying people - evening.

Tanks on the streets of the city (night).

Bear the portrait of the dead.

Funeral flags.

The woman grabbed the deputy head in his hands.

A soldier holding his head.

A minute of silence at the Congress.

Warped train cars, "Adler-Novosibirsk".

Are dead.

Gorbachev waved his hand.

The reflection in the windows of the domes PDR.

Alexy II in the hall of Congress.

In the hall sit together Shevardnadze, E.Ligachev, Mr.

Nikolay Rizhkov etc.

G.Popov stands from the rostrum.

Writer Yu.

Chernichenko on the podium.

A group of deputies left the hall.

At the podium and talk Gorbachev A.Lukyanov.

Playing members of the audience.

Looks Gorbachev.

Sakharov is interviewed on the sidelines.

N.I.Ryzhkov interviewed on the street.

A.Lukyanov on the podium.

The deputies in the courtroom.