Soviet coup failure aftermath
- Title
- Soviet coup failure aftermath
- Genre
- Press conference
- TX Date
- 22 Aug 1991
- Year of production
- 1991
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- Duration
- 00:02:54
- Description
- Press conference with Soviet Ambassador to Great Britain Leonid Zamyatin outside the Foreign Office where he was delivering a personal message of thanks to Britain from Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for their support during the coup attempt in the USSR and calling for economic aid to be restored by the G7 nations. Also comments on Russian President Boris Yeltsin’s actions during the coup.
- Contributors
- Leonid Zamyatin
- Keywords
- Revolutions; Politics; Government; UK; Great Britain; USSR; Foreign aid; Foreign Office; Boris Yeltsin; Mikhail Gorbachev; Economic aid
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