1993 Russian constitutional crisis. Russian Soldiers, loyal to the Yeltsin government, outside of the Russian White House. October 04.
1993 Russian constitutional crisis. Pro Yeltsin Russian Special Forces soldiers behind a light tank on the street outside of the Russian White house during the 1993 Constitutional crisis in Moscow, Russia. Then Russian President Boris Yeltsin ordered the army to use tanks to shell the country’s legislature building known as the Russian White House on the Moscow River in central Moscow. Yelstin had disbanded the parliament in late September of 1993 and Vice President Aleksandr Rutskoi and Supreme Soviet speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov lead Soviet lawmakers to barricade themselves inside 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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