1993 Russian constitutional crisis. Russian Soldiers, loyal to the Yeltsin government, shoot at the Russian White House.
1993 Russian constitutional crisis October 4 1993. Russian soldiers fire at the Russian White House after Anti-Yelstin supporters of the disbanded Supreme Soviet barricaded themselves inside the building in central Moscow. Russian President Boris Yeltsin, first Russian President 1991-1999, had disbanded the parliament in late September of 1993. Vice President Aleksandr Rutskoi and Supreme Soviet speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov lead Soviet lawmakers to occupy the White House. Earlier in the week armed Anti-Yelstin rioters attacked the Ostankino Television complex and the Moscow Mayor’s office. The Russian army’s attack on the White House came at the end of what is considered to be the worst violence in Moscow since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. When the rioters surrendered and Rutskoi and Khasbulatov were arrested, according to the Russian Government 74 people died and 172 were injured during the conflict.
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Location: Krasnopresnenskaya Naberezhnaya, 2, Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Russia
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