The Constitutional Assembly of 1993. The Beginning.




The main topic of the issue was the convening by the President of the Russian Federation of state authorities, local governments and public organizations to participate in the Conference on the draft of the new Constitution of the Russian Federation.
Video story: Rallies of supporters and opponents of the President, Parliament, the old regime.
They buy Russian flags (tricolor color) from a street vendor for Soviet rubles.
Clashes between demonstrators and a police cordon.
A fight.
The work of Parliament.
The meeting room.
Ruslan Khasbulatov in the presidium.
Sergei Shakhrai in the corridors surrounded by journalists.
The voting board with the caption "Decision NOT TAKEN".
Boris Yeltsin leaves the presidium of the meeting room.
The Russian tricolor - large.
Yuri Matochkin and Fyodor Tsann-kai-si talk about the project developed by the Constitutional Commission of the Congress of People's Deputies and the project proposed to the Presidential Commission.
About the work of the Commission to find compromise options in the legislation regulating the separation of powers.
Video story: Kremlin territory.
Interviews with the participants of the meeting (Arkady Volsky, Anatoly Sobchak, Gavriil Popov, Mintimer Shaimiev, Yuri Luzhkov, Valery Zorkin, Nikolay Ryabov, Gennady Burbulis, Sergei Filatov and others) - their expectations from the new legislation, the search for compromises.
Boris Yeltsin in the presidium during the meeting.
Ruslan Khasbulatov, surrounded by journalists, gives an interview in which he talks about the refusal to give him the floor.
He criticizes the President.
Secretary of the Constitutional Commission Oleg Rumyantsev reads out an appeal "on behalf of the dissatisfied" in which a demand is made to hold plenary sessions to discuss both draft constitutions.
Oleg Rumyantsev talks about the atmosphere in which the congress was held, about the existing shortcomings, about the restrictions on the media's access to information.
Russian President Boris Yeltsin emphasizes the need to adopt a new Constitution of the Russian Federation.
Expresses his opinion on the position of the Supreme Council and advocates for holding new elections.
Matochkin Yuri - head of the Kaliningrad region administration. Tsann-kai-si Fedor - doctor of philosophical sciences
05.06.1993




Continuation of the discussion of the new draft Constitution of Russia.
Vasily Lipitsky on the speech of the President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin, on the work of the Congress of Deputies.
Story: Boris Yeltsin during the 7th Congress of People's Deputies (1992).
Ruslan Khasbulatov.
The meeting hall.
The voting results board.
Deputies in the corridors.
Viktor Chernomyrdin.
The meeting of the 8th Congress of People's Deputies.
The voting results board: "Decision not made".
Boris Yeltsin leaves the meeting hall.
Yeltsin's television address.
Valery Zorkin.
The meeting of the 9th Congress of People's Deputies.
Sergei Shakhrai on the results of the joint Conference and the planned work schedule.
Interview: Viktor Rozov, Edison Denisov, Ilya Kuzin.
Lipitsky Vasily - Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Association "Civil Union". Shakhrai Sergey - Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Government. Migranyan Andronik - Political Scientist. Rozov Viktor - Playwright. Denisov Edison - Composer. Kuzin Ilya - Chief Physician of the Botkin Hospital.
12.06.1993