ok thanks dodo no Peacedog, live ammu fires *** tar has joined channel #report CNN: tunnel under the admin office (lower building), defenders have ammo there. kj6yt: where does that tunnel go I missed it *** irc25683 has joined channel #report Estonian president is very worried about what is going on in Moscow (Finland radio) *** TREK has joined channel #report TUNNEL joins city hall and WH nazir thanks 107 persoms (20 from militia) are in the hostpitals *** step has joined channel #report CNN so did I, just that it lead to the admin building which is the lower building there. *** Msquito has joined channel #report *** Mode change "+o step " on channel #report by avk *** Signoff: dora (Leaving) *** oatbran has left channel #report *** Signoff: Movado (Leaving) *** Sal_ has joined channel #report *** Signoff: trot (Ping timeout) hopefully residental areas will not be shot at *** aud has joined channel #report kemo: res. areas already were shoot at. *** Signoff: cklausme (Leaving) *** Signoff: SamAdams (Bad link?) avk: any injuries *** Signoff: ehud (Leaving) *** yahooo has joined channel #report *** Izzard has joined channel #report *** TuKu has joined channel #report *** shoop has joined channel #report Gov troops blocked a lot of roads, preventing Ruzkoy's people from goiung to central areas *** Signoff: kivinen (Bad link?) CBC reporter in Moscow is in her office (I presume far from WH) and watches CNN :-) /// presumably children were asked not to go to school *** Izzard has left channel #report *** kivinen has joined channel #report are any civilians firing on parliament *** Sal_ has left channel #report *** Signoff: Datura (Leaving) *** jmm has joined channel #report *** Signoff: Msquito (What link?) -KJ6YT-USA:#report- there are 124 users on report, only 36 on discuss where much of the chatter belongs. Please use #report for news reports and #discuss for discussion. lot of ppl visible on streets in moscow now, 9.20 am *** SamAdams has joined channel #report *** dodo2 has joined channel #report lots of smoke from balconies new smoke behind WH *** Idea-MW has left channel #report *** dodo2 has left channel #report cryo: they told about 2 divisions - a lot, I'd say. It vwas several hours ago re abc news *** yahooo has left channel #report *** SpaceFox has joined channel #report *** irc25683 has left channel #report *** oatbran has joined channel #report *** MoRBiT has joined channel #report *** akira has joined channel #report *** newbie has joined channel #report *** lewd has joined channel #report *** youred has left channel #report *** campb has joined channel #report *** howl has joined channel #report *** magester has joined channel #report *** MoRBiT has left channel #report heavy smoke from bunker area CNN picture shows bunker area in WH starts smoking *** Evile has joined channel #report heavy black smoke from back of wh area that is entrance 20, which might be a truck on fire truck back of WH (loaded with live ammo) actuall cought fire *** irc25683 has joined channel #report *** akira has left channel #report four heavy blasts from yelstin's forces brb *** tfish has left channel #report *** Signoff: topfm (Leaving) *** Zapwig has joined channel #report *** tfish has joined channel #report *** tmns has left channel #report *** jhi has joined channel #report *** zhen has joined channel #report *** Signoff: irc25683 (Leaving) *** Signoff: tfish (Leaving) *** ym has joined channel #report *** phallic has joined channel #report *** Signoff: NullSet (NullSet) *** phallic is now known as topfm *** campb has left channel #report cnn: billowing smoke covering the sky above moscow's active regions. *** ifcw334 has joined channel #report *** akira has joined channel #report tula paratroopers coming *** ifcw334 is now known as Troll *** Mode change "+o topfm " on channel #report by Peacedog *** Signoff: pekka (irc.funet.fi lehtori.cc.tut.fi) *** Signoff: Maage (irc.funet.fi lehtori.cc.tut.fi) *** Signoff: drop-out (irc.funet.fi lehtori.cc.tut.fi) *** Signoff: Kezerk (irc.funet.fi lehtori.cc.tut.fi) *** Signoff: yom (Leaving) anything on us broadcast networks? *** maryjane has joined channel #report davinator nothing but on cnn observation: cnn was not around during cold war no wonder cold war lasted so long *** maryjane has left channel #report *** Dura has joined channel #report *** Mode change "+o jhi " on channel #report by Peacedog *** scorpo has joined channel #report *** ducky has joined channel #report *** grybalov is now known as Ilya *** Signoff: Herring (Bad link?) *** Signoff: akira (Leaving) Live Finnish radio (telephone) report, 25 minutes old (Moscow time 10:05): *** Wozz has joined channel #report elite troops tightening their grip around the White House, *** Signoff: avk (Bad link?) full city war in progress, soldiers running low between cars and apcs shit, there went avk *** Kezerk has joined channel #report *** drop-out has joined channel #report *** Maage has joined channel #report *** pekka has joined channel #report *** Mode change "+ooo Kezerk drop-out Maage " on channel #report by lehtori.cc.tut.fi *** avk has joined channel #report peace: he'll be back strangely enough, the normal Monday life has started around *** Mode change "+o avk " on channel #report by Peacedog the White House battle zone, the only difference is that the schools are closed ironically terminator on mtv ;) *** ppin has joined channel #report *** kkz has joined channel #report *** Signoff: howl (Leaving) *** Spacie has joined channel #report the storm troopers (elite troops) are preparing for the final *** Mode change "+o ppin " on channel #report by Kemo *** Mode change "+o ppin " on channel #report by valik CNN: Heliucopters ppin: welcome and please report, whre are you located Helicopter seen in air! CNN: are over the WH calboy: confirmed assault on the Whitse House, there are rumours about possible use cnn: long, loving shot of single helicopter, hovering with a delicate finality over the chaos of the city. *** lex has joined channel #report AuBC: reports of helicopters to be used in the assault circling white house *** lucifer3 has left channel #report CNN can't be seen in Russia because Ostankino is off-line. Pleasee report! helicopters, now two fo them in a pulled-back shot, circle around. shot of the white house. kemo: hello, i am 100 km from Moscow, in Pushchino tula forces are in helicopters helicopters disappear behind the ... city hall? building. ppin: hi Helicopters can be heard still from the Finnish radio: freeside: mossovet? Helicopters are over the WH avk: can you see them two heavy armed helicopters circulating WH building I dont know why I bother really its all old news. Ostankino firmly in hands of Jeltsin troops, this took several hours *** kxb has joined channel #report *** Spacie has left channel #report some shots, close-up, of the white house, i think; could almost be a shot from a travel video, the architecture is so clearly defined. *** Maja has joined channel #report of fierce fighting as the attackers used grenade launchers, bazookas, Swedish Radio: Russian troups in serious attempt to storm WH apcs and other heavy weaponry. helicopters come in again, like great steel ghosts misting out of the smoke. *** alex has joined channel #report *** Signoff: n8dgn (Leaving) i see 2 helicopters are there more Finnish Radio reports 25 dead least night, most of them at Ostankino, shot of helicopters flying far above power lines ... symbolism. they're crossing the final line. HC going SW many teenagers among the dead helicopters have the red star of the army with missle launchers scattered cannonfire in the background, low sixty-hertz of the helicopters rotors. General Kulikov, the emergency commander, has demanded all armed civilians *** Signoff: Maja (Leaving) ! *** zhen has left channel #report *** Lynsa has joined channel #report *** You have new mail. *** SamAdams has left channel #report no electric or power in WH to surrender their weapons, "all resistance will be *destroyed*". shot of the white house. no electrical power, no phones, cut off. *** oleg has joined channel #report *** kkz has left channel #report *** Mode change "+o Lynsa " on channel #report by valik they must be in a state of insane savagery there ... imagine how it feels to be cornered and hopeless. Yeltsin gave television speech 20 minutes ago: he declared the opponents yeltsin met with kgb assault force It seems that all inside the WH will be just killed. ô¨ *** JoMM has joined channel #report "criminals" and accused them of plotting against the Swedish Radio: Swedish government do not think it is necessarily to advise people NOT to go to russia (most tourists go to St Petersburg) government and collecting weapons while negotiating the helicopters continue to circle the city, high above, obscured by the smoke. *** Maja has joined channel #report the time is 9:35 am in Moscow. *** gst has joined channel #report The transport to and from Russia is normal (the morning train yeltsin forces now on the green on the ground, shock troops continue to pour toward the WH. *** alpinist has joined channel #report *** opus has joined channel #report two shot 2 helicopters in recon formation *** karenina has joined channel #report everything is now thickly grayed by smoke. from Moscow to Helsinki is arriving on schedule, the Finnair *** Signoff: topfm (Leaving) *** zhen has joined channel #report imagine how it feels, the thud and vibrations of deep bombs. the smell of gunpowder. flight from Moscow to Helsinki is also on schedule *** Signoff: lex (Ping timeout) *** JoMN has joined channel #report the fighting is very strangely centered around the WH *** lreiter has joined channel #report VP will address in 2 1/2 hr prime minster to address the nation at noon this must be the strangest morning in a muscovite's life. *** mykes has joined channel #report *** SamAdams has joined channel #report how about trains between Moscow and StPetersburg? "Postfactum" correspondent is wounded in the head (female) jhi: the leaders are in there *** Hemp2 has joined channel #report *** artiste has joined channel #report Helicopters started to attach WH *** topfm has joined channel #report Moscow TV 15 minutes ago: fierce fighting still continues around *** dhess has joined channel #report *** Mode change "+o topfm " on channel #report by Peacedog *** Wozz has left channel #report *** Signoff: NRV (Gotta get some sleep !! :) *** Signoff: JoMN (Bad link?) the White House, no final assault in progress yet kemo, freeside: it is very good - your help to see the news! cnn reports kept back *** JoMNN has joined channel #report tank in the road, smoke rising around it. *** Signoff: alex (Leaving) thank you, ppin. so far no report of casualty *** Signoff: carrick (Bad link?) ppin: well when we visit moscow make sure to take us out for some vodka ;) civilians? milling around. some jaywalking across the road. mean since this morning *** lex has joined channel #report the choppers again. high and distant. *** mytzlplk has joined channel #report *** trot has joined channel #report in Pushchino (100km from Moscow) it is quiet Copters are back *** Mode change "+o trot " on channel #report by Peacedog *** sdf has joined channel #report *** TREK has left channel #report still heavy gunfire from Moscow back to the road. debris, then the camera shakes. there are people among the debris. *** Sisko has joined channel #report *** JoMNN has left channel #report French journalist was killed.. *** tokey has joined channel #report there is fire in WH and anti-fire system doesn't work due to no electricity anything new last 15 minutes? *** mykes4 has joined channel #report *** mykes has left channel #report most of parliament has left, except for the radicals against yeltsin that's all I've got to report from Finland for now. *** Signoff: JoMM (Ping timeout) *** Signoff: shoop (Bad link?) *** carrick has joined channel #report *** sdf has left channel #report HC comming back Yeltsin's forces are moving in on all sides now. Boxed in and clearly untenable, the white house has suddenly gone silent. kemo: ok :) mia-8 helicopters ppin ;) HC going west behind WH two birds fly across. two crows. from left to right. in the distance, the camera focuses on the helicopters. *** orestes has joined channel #report *** pweent has joined channel #report  > all logs are working again and thanks to ginster nothing was missed. *** mf has joined channel #report jem: good send them to letters@globe.com ok, boston globe *** Tonto has joined channel #report where are the logs kept? the German site that kept them earlier > look on sunsite.unc.edu in ftp:/pub/academic/russian-studies/russian-coup/irc-reports or gopher:/coup.d stopped keeping them 3 hours ago? > we lost the connection, but all is fine now. *** Mode change "+o Tonto " on channel #report by Calboy cnn: reports more regional problems for yeltsin *** Signoff: step (Leaving) cnn seems to keep going back, again and again, to those few morose camera angles of gravelly destiny. *** tokey has left channel #report > topfm: although they are not currently split by hour, we are taking a freeze each hour and tomorrow I will turn those into hourly reports. make that predicts, Kemo *** Signoff: lreiter (Bad link?) *** thorsten has joined channel #report *** newbie has left channel #report *** Signoff: dhess (Bad link?) kj6yt yup *** newbie has joined channel #report *** mf has left channel #report *** lreiter has joined channel #report siezed rooms.... rutgers: interior minsters say 2 floors of wh has been seized CNN Reuters reports two floors seized *** medved has joined channel #report CNN: 2 floors of the prliment have been siezed 2 floors *** Mode change "+o newbie " on channel #report by Kemo *** Signoff: scorpo (Leaving) *** chatch has joined channel #report *** Signoff: mytzlplk (Leaving) *** Packet1 has left channel #report interior report has been confirmed armed troop HC doing survey *** Jizmak has joined channel #report *** Signoff: Boson (Leaving) *** RenB has joined channel #report *** GreenDay has joined channel #report assualt troops may be close yeah! :) *** Hacker has joined channel #report *** GreenDay has left channel #report *** Signoff: orestes (Leaving) *** youred has joined channel #report troops speeding in *** CP has joined channel #report *** scorpo has joined channel #report troop speeding to WH *** SamAdams has left channel #report *** CP has left channel #report *** Signoff: chatch (Leaving) advance has been slow 6 trucks (4 personel trucks, 2 armors) *** Lippy has joined channel #report *** Hacker has left channel #report *** Tonto has left channel #report *** Mode change "+o medved " on channel #report by Kemo some damage to WH building *** Signoff: alpinist (Leaving) *** RenB has left channel #report *** julf has joined channel #report *** youred has left channel #report *** Frood has joined channel #report *** youred has joined channel #report wh riddled with bullet holes *** whoosie has joined channel #report *** Signoff: scorpo (Bad link?) *** StratMan has joined channel #report *** scorpo has joined channel #report *** lewd has left channel #report *** pyro has joined channel #report *** aud has left channel #report tons of crossfires in wh hallways *** Signoff: Alex-1 (Leaving) *** zhen has left channel #report *** sww0906 has joined channel #report SHIT shots fired *** SamAdams has joined channel #report tank open fired It's very calm in Novosibirsk - doesn't see police on central square tanks just opened fire on the front of the white house. tank opened on front of wh 2 shots, into the front *** Signoff: SamAdams (Bad link?) BIG plume of smoke. t-72 tank fired shoot *** Mode change "+o medved " on channel #report by avk cnn reporters just crapped themselves *** Signoff: sww0906 (Leaving) *** gavroche has joined channel #report "that stairwell would be right next to mr rutskoi's office." jesus fired shots in front of WH right next to ruskoi's office *** staryi has joined channel #report WH front door blasted off *** VDubber has joined channel #report there has been no return fire out of this side of the white house -- the front. *** youred has left channel #report wh is smoking shot the daily briefing room *** youred has joined channel #report *** Signoff: VDubber (Leaving) briefing room was hit *** tar has left channel #report *** Schorsch has joined channel #report *** lewd has joined channel #report AGAIN. *** dora has joined channel #report one more shot another shot holy shit! abc live third floor blasted *** artiste has left channel #report t-72 tanks shooting an indentation in the road, underneath the tank. WH returning fire heavy damage. *** Signoff: irc24034 (snake.nchu.edu.tw NEWS.NSYSU.edu.tw) *** fractal has joined channel #report *** Signoff: irc22272 (snake.nchu.edu.tw NEWS.NSYSU.edu.tw) *** Signoff: irc20547 (snake.nchu.edu.tw NEWS.NSYSU.edu.tw) heavy damage *** Signoff: Jizmak (laytuh) *** mytzlplk has joined channel #report *** krupnyak has left channel #report *** krupnyak has joined channel #report *** artiste has joined channel #report *** Surreal has joined channel #report strangely, all the flags on the top of the building fly unaffected. small arms being fired from back of WH inside the building plaster must just be crumbling. tanks moving in tape of first tank rounds CNN reporters elect to replay the tape of the first blast of the building, from a different angle. 3 more armors mmoving in live shot of tanks more armared V comming I have scanned whole Short Wave band, no reports from Radio Moscow, in English. Russian report from 15290 kHz thou. err, 4, on the other side Even if the legislators chose to surrender, i doubt they could get the front door open. 5. ruskoi wants negotiations five AV seen *** Wozz has joined channel #report now 6. damn so far eight AV=? the question occurs to me: how could the legislators have received yeltsin's ultimatum, if they had no newsfeed? pedeistrian walking out to lead AV Armard Vehi. =AV here's the tape of the first shots *** Mode change "+o staryi " on channel #report by Kemo *** oi has joined channel #report *** Mode change "+o Mycroft " on channel #report by Kemo heavy fires continues is rutskoi stalling again *** Signoff: Dura (Leaving) oh.. it was tape.. ok brb *** Signoff: topfm (Leaving) the column of eight tanks remains stoutly outside the front. *** Alex-1 has joined channel #report *** irc20547 has joined channel #report *** irc22272 has joined channel #report *** irc24034 has joined channel #report *** aud has joined channel #report *** Mode change "+oo irc20547 irc24034 " on channel #report by NEWS.NSYSU.edu.tw may be 100 -200 people inside WH VP willing to negociate some guy's taking pictures I believe a civilian just walked up to a tank and snapped a photograph. 3 choppers high in teh sky Copter are back 3 helicopters now calling for negotiations? *** nobby has joined channel #report *** guardian has joined channel #report did yletsin call negotiations over 3 choppers in air now Did choppers land on the roof? what happened - everyone left, now returning (?) HC appears with paratroopers avk: no *** Meursault has joined channel #report How can there be "negotiations" if nobody knows if there are channels of communication into the building? helicopter went by star on building *** guardian has left channel #report not on roof yet *** Mode change "+o gavroche " on channel #report by Kemo Kemo: Yeltin said that he would nego only if Rutskoi would lay down their arms and walk out HC very high in sky freeside: good point *** Megaman has joined channel #report underbelly shot of the helicopter, from right underneath. implacable, the bird of war looks down on the city. *** JoMM has joined channel #Report *** Signoff: TuKu (segmentation fault (core dumped)) calboy: confirmed *** Signoff: DedDog (idle timeout) *** NeM has joined channel #report snippers on roof of WH *** Megaman has left channel #report it's like, "hey! yeltsin! don't tell us! we're only the news! tell rutskoi! he's the enemy, remember?" tank convoy moving tanks are going in tanks moving *** Apg has joined channel #report AV started to move tanks begin to roll. geez guys, get some poetry :) /whois airton motorized howitzers with black beret troops *** Sixx has joined channel #report headed right for water trucks *** Piker has joined channel #report *** Chuck has joined channel #report *** undead has joined channel #report *** Spidy has joined channel #report *** sQyrm has joined channel #report *** staryi has left channel #report passed the t-80's *** Android has joined channel #report *** Mode change "+o Apg " on channel #report by valik *** Action: Apg thanks valik AV crossing the bridge *** Petri has joined channel #report pedestrians on the bridge are running away from the tanks *** nicenice has joined channel #report [damn. 160 people in here.] *** Chuck has left channel #report *** Mode change "+o JoMM " on channel #report by Kemo *** Lightning has joined channel #report the AV's are heading for the water cannon trucks another HC in sky this reminds me of the bridge scene in _akira_. *** Mode change "+o NeM " on channel #report by JoMM ok people walking in front of tanks thanks kemo thanx jomm AV near water tankers civilians between the water tanks and the military. hmmm 170 ahak *** Zapwig has left channel #report govt troops maybe in mir hotel yup why the +m in this channel?? *** topfm has joined channel #report CNN concludes the earlier apcs were government troops. why the +m in this channel?? *** Mode change "+o topfm " on channel #report by Peacedog water tankers blocking the road *** Mark has joined channel #report *** Signoff: Schorsch (the semester starts..... bye bye) water truks blocking bridge....8 mobile AV's heading for the trucks *** Mode change "-o NeM " on channel #report by freeside *** Sixx has left channel #report *** Mode change "+o NeM " on channel #report by JoMM please *** Sixx has joined channel #report pedestrians might be trying to block the AV's *** Mode change "-o freeside " on channel #report by NeM *** Mode change "+o freeside " on channel #report by Peacedog *** FinnTV has joined channel #report hmmm the tanks advance across the bridge. ahhaa *** Signoff: nicenice (nicenice) *** ChainSaw has joined channel #report AV stopped *** Zapwig has joined channel #report pedestrians scattering copters some defenders behind water tanks *** Mode change "+o FinnTV " on channel #report by trot choppers higher up now to make confusing inside hall gov. people in plain cloths *** mortso has joined channel #report set novice off *** shoop has joined channel #report Finnish tv news coming up soon.... *** Signoff: Apg (Bad link?) *** Nestor has joined channel #report *** MadGnome has joined channel #report Rutskoi "has" called for negotiations according to CNN ATV-10 news Australia in 2 minutes.... VP call for nego. with yelston *** Sixx is now known as CSPAN-5 *** CSPAN-5 is now known as Sixx *** bYtE_ has joined channel #report *** hayes has joined channel #report *** Nestor has left channel #report *** xyzzy has joined channel #report *** Megaman has joined channel #report gov. not ready to nego. wants them to come out with white flags *** Signoff: lex (Leaving) brb They can stop this insanity by leaving WH with white flag, last chance CNN Reporter say generic Civilians mill around, seemingly dazed. *** Mode change "+o Piker " on channel #report by JoMM