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View of Moscow from a high point near the Russian Government building.
View of the Kremlin.
Theater Square, traffic, view of the Bolshoi Theater.
Streets of Moscow, hand trading.
Driving into the slogan "We stand for communism" on the building.
Entrance to "Petrovsky Passage", inside the store.
People sell women's boots and other goods on the street.
A beggar on her knees, collecting alms.
A woman gives out money.
A destroyed church building.
Paintings of religious and epic themes.
Bas-relief with a multi-figure composition, in the center: Madonna and Child.
Collage of portraits of political figures.
Riders on white horses on Vasilievsky Spusk Square.
The clock on the Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin shows 10-05. General view of the hall of the 8th Congress of People's Deputies of the Russian Federation.
Congress participants in the hall.
Ruslan Khasbulatov is at the microphone, speaking (synchronously) about the tasks of the congress.
Deputies call for a moratorium on the referendum.
Yeltsin and other deputies listen on headphones.
Congress participants chat in the foyer during the break.
Deputies in the congress hall.
Khasbulatov R.I. -- Russian political figure
Moscow




PPR on the deputies in the hall.
Speeches by deputies from the rostrum (synchronously) on the complexity of the situation in the country and the attitude towards the national referendum.
Viktor Chernomyrdin and Aleksandr Rutskoy are sitting in the hall.
Deputy Sergei Baburin speaks about his vision of the referendum.
Yeltsin listens.
View of the Ivan the Great Bell Tower, PPR on the Kremlin churches.
Speech by Russian President Boris Yeltsin from the rostrum (synchronously) on the need to overcome the political crisis.
Viktor Chernomyrdin speaks from the rostrum (synchronously) on the need for unity.
Chernomyrdin V.S. - Russian statesman and political figure
Moscow




A panorama of the deputies in the hall.
Viktor Chernomyrdin is speaking at the podium (synchronously) about the need to have a strong Russia.
The hall of the 8th Congress of People's Deputies.
Yeltsin is in the Presidium.
Ruslan Khasbulatov is speaking at the podium (synchronously) about the confrontation of the branches of power.
Cheerful faces, applause in the hall. V.D. Zorkina is speaking at the microphone (synchronously).
Viktor Chernomyrdin and other congress deputies are sitting in the hall.
Russian President B.N. Yeltsin is speaking at the podium (synchronously), saying that he disagrees with the resolution under discussion.
Dissatisfied faces of the deputies, including Aman Tuleyev.
Groups of cameramen and photojournalists are working in the congress hall.
Voting machines are on the deputies' desks. R. Khasbulatov in the Presidium of the congress.
In a speech from a microphone in the hall, deputy Mironov accuses Khasbulatov of usurping power.
Speech by Ruslan Khasbulatov from the congress rostrum (synchronously and off-screen) about the role of Parliament.
Listeners in the hall.
The Russian flag over the building in the Kremlin.
View of the Kremlin across the Moscow River.
Chernomyrdin V.S. - Russian statesman and political figure
Moscow