IRC log started Mon Oct 4 01:44 *** Value of LOGFILE set to /pub/academic/russian-studies/russian-coup/irc-report/current-logfile *** Signoff: Inick (Leaving) *** jukkao has joined channel #report *** Mode change "+o zorgo " on channel #report by w *** Sundancer has joined channel #report schevarnadze will probably say (about the gunfire) "THAT sounds familiar" *** Thing has joined channel #report Shevarnadze *** irc25168 has joined channel #report medved: hehe *** shiok has joined channel #report schevarnadze is ousted from georgia isnt that true All FM radio stations broadcast music. No MW station can be heard... Kemo: no he isn't calboy: ok thanks *** Rikitiki has joined channel #report *** Mode change "+o Rikitiki " on channel #report by Peacedog *** Manwe has joined channel #report avk: how come the stations are not reporting live etc? The gunbattle is the scoop aint it? *** Mode change "-bbb *!viking@* *!viking@krynn.solace.mh.se Joms!*@* " on channel #report by Rikitiki MW = AM for US-ers :) medved: people might find out the truth then anything on shortwave radio? avk silence is no fun, heh? medved: I suppose I have very bad receiver and bad conditions here I do not have SW band on my microreceiver :( mossovet heavy black smoke around it *** Signoff: shiok (poe.acc.Virginia.EDU *.sg) 50 channels on cable.. only CNN reporting. *** tao2 has joined channel #report *** Joms has joined channel #report many people outside *** Mode change "+o Joms " on channel #report by Rikitiki *** Signoff: pi (Ping timeout) *** BlankB has joined channel #report yeltsin to report on 12.5 minutes *** buonngu has joined channel #report all op.. better :) report only please *** Reb is now known as Elight *** Signoff: pnh (pnh) *** pi has joined channel #report *** Signoff: westes (westes) *** Signoff: Cryo (Leaving) be back.... *** SamAdams has joined channel #report Gunfire continus in Moscow *** Mode change "+o pi " on channel #report by NRV pi ? *** Sundancer has left channel #report 3 *** Signoff: Balrog (noc.belwue.de uni-karlsruhe.de) *** Signoff: medved (Bad link?) *** Elight is now known as Reb *** gordy has joined channel #report *** Signoff: irc25168 (Leaving) bravo: pro mossovet nichego ne znayu *** Signoff: Rikitiki (Bad link?) cnn: gunfire like firecrackers, thunder. i need more info on yeltsin on-air. damn high artillery shooting now ALL: Any CNN news from MOSSOVET area? By the way, Finnnish TV reported yesterday that 'the operative leadership of Finnish armed forces' is to hold a meeting this morning to discuss the events in Moscow *** Cryo has joined channel #report topfm about 12 min cnn: streams of men coming out into the street from white house, apparently. avk: yup tons of shots *** Balrog has joined channel #report *** Joshi has joined channel #report *** Mode change "+oo Balrog Joshi " on channel #report by uni-erlangen.de *** Mode change "+bb *!viking@krynn.solace.mh.se Joms!*@* " on channel #report by uni-erlangen.de *** Mode change "+b *!viking@* " on channel #report by uni-erlangen.de *** Mode change "-bbb mahdis!*@* *!0irc@r?d-dw?rf.cit.corn?ll.?du you!*@* " on channel #report by Joms *** Mode change "-bbb *!viking@* *!viking@krynn.solace.mh.se Joms!*@* " on channel #report by Joms cnn inquires if those pictures can be seen within the parliament building. eileen says they don't have cnn. *** TomBa has left channel #report *** Action: avk attempts to enchance antenna. be back in 5 minutes parliament cnn reports unmanned uit *** Signoff: cklausme (Leaving) *** wreckluse has joined channel #report people coming out from mossovet can anyone digitise yeltsin for me?? voice?? avk take CARE! avk is in Russia/Moscow? Cool! *** phil has joined channel #report CNN: said they don't have anyone in the parliment cnn: shadows moving out of the white house. cnn suggests they are assault troops. cat /dev/audio >yeltsin.au dodo: yup report only please high smoke frpm the white house building dodo, joms, please -- this channel is reports only. *** krupnyak has joined channel #report *** phil has left channel #report freeside what am I talking about then? *** westes has joined channel #report people running from mossovet to wh /log off government forces shooting at those moving people *** Signoff: aphrael (aphrael) *** Bobby has joined channel #report Russian TV : man reads an announcement from Sklifosovsky ambulance institute *** mosigbit has joined channel #report bravo: that will probably change in 11 minutes Gov soldiers shooting at soldiers on streets *** Signoff: mosigbit (Leaving) They need analgetics, blood, aseptics, etc... He read the help phones.... *** cklausme has joined channel #report *** Silas has joined channel #report somebody, make available record of Eltsin speech on ftp, please joms: shooting at soldiers or people? *** buonngu has left channel #report *** aphrael has joined channel #report at soldiers *** Signoff: Cryo (Leaving) no people out now, as it seems *** howl has joined channel #report trot: unknown people are leaving mossovet *** ww has joined channel #report can anyone digitise yeltsins speech??????? *** Cryo has joined channel #report *** Mode change "+o ww " on channel #report by w anyone got any info from hotel mir (sp) *** Signoff: dodo (Leaving) there are several dishes on roof... is that the TV Centre in Moscow? hold on it will be in russian wont it... dont worry *** Bobby has left channel #report *** Orveny has joined channel #report *** Signoff: Silas (Leaving) Lots of military forcers near that building *** w has left channel #report *** mosigbit has joined channel #report *** ElfQuest has joined channel #report ruyskoi's men moving *** Signoff: Olorin (Leaving) yeltsin's men now on the wh lawn *** Quantum has left channel #report Yeltsin troups moving closer to the white house *** Signoff: Sa_Mtns (Leaving) CAN ANYONE DIGITISE??? *** Mycroft has joined channel #report 8.54 am in moscow, still high shooting at/from the white house *** Doogie has joined channel #report *** TREK has joined channel #report for your info ruyskoi's men are in hotel mir, mossovet and the russian white house *** Signoff: SamAdams (Bad link?) *** lucifer3 has joined channel #report *** Signoff: Smrf (Leaving) ruyskoi's men seem unable to get into wh after fleeing mossovet Rumours about Airborne soldiers, CNN reporter says airbourne assault immenant, probably in tune with yeltsin's speech *** indus has joined channel #report 3.5 min to yeltsin's address to nation *** avk__ has joined channel #report *** Mode change "+o avk__ " on channel #report by Peacedog any estimates on the # of rutskoi's people in each place? irc: not yet *** Gosseyn has joined channel #report Sorry - modems disconnected. Phone lines are overloaded. *** TuKu has joined channel #report *** Action: topfm has advised AuBC of yeltsins speech lets see what they do?? I am afraid that soon I'll be cut off avk__ no need to apologize *** w has joined channel #report *** w has left channel #report bbc: lots of gunfire in background, reporter saying lyrical things about this being it. *** Signoff: avk (Bad link?) CORRECTION! Not MOSSOVET is on fire, city hall (ex-SEV building) is *** avk__ is now known as avk avk: you should see yeltsin on russian tv shortly *** Gnostic has joined channel #report *** tfish has joined channel #report *** Gosseyn has left channel #report X?}{ *** Inferno has joined channel #report Gov soldiers are shooting into wiundows of city hall i thought mossovet=city hall *** krupnyak has left channel #report *** tfish has left channel #report *** Joms has left channel #report no wonder we had a cold war, cbs, nbc and abc are not covering this *** tzsch has joined channel #report 30+yeltsin troops taking cover beyond the "green belt" ,, and approx 3/4 a block away... what looked to me like "civilians/reports" were also running towards the "green belt" for cover. trot: NO! Mossovet is on Tverskaya, there is a lot of people there (democrats meeting still going on) *** krupnyak has joined channel #report bbc in moscow refers to liberating, freeing the white house *** Doogie has left channel #report *** dodo has joined channel #report avk: what is tverskaya *** Inferno has left channel #report avk what side are the democrats you refer to on *** Signoff: step (Leaving) CH is still occupied by Ruzkoys people kemo : Tverskaya street Well, I call Yeltzin';s people democras *** Movado has joined channel #report Yeltsin's on!! YELTZIN SPOEAKS AuBC news... *** Mode change "+o witek " on channel #report by Kemo *** You have new mail. witek please report from cbc cnn (oconner) says that could be defenders. I wonder how the two opposing sides could be so close and both heading for the same green area. it doesn't add up. if the "shadows" that came out of the tall building were in fact defenders... then unless *** tfish has joined channel #report *** Mode change "+o dodo " on channel #report by trot Honestly I don't think he'll say smth important cnn: yeltsin speaking there is an underground access, there are two pockets of defending force... possibly split. *** NeM has joined channel #report *** Joms has joined channel #report He says we werre unprepared *** Signoff: gavroche (Ping timeout) *** Jvi has left channel #report Finnish radio: fighting around white house in moscow, heavy guns used scott: yes, there IS underground access to the WH scott: who said that barricades burning *** SamAdams has joined channel #report AuBC: smoke from burning barricades scott: at least rumors about it are circulatinf for several years (AMPU/#report) quit dir dir dir dir dir dir ssh. dir the biggest fighting in moscow since october revolution in 1917 *** carrick has been kicked off channel #report by Kemo *** Mode change "+bb *!*SYSPROG1@*.NTU.EDU.AU carrick!*@* " on channel #report by Peacedog *** Action: Calboy pulls out his colt .45 and fires on carrick *** tzsch has left channel #report report only no directory searchs wait hes a newbie *** mimosa has joined channel #report *** Mode change "-bb carrick!*@* *!*SYSPROG1@*.NTU.EDU.AU " on channel #report by Peacedog *** carrick has joined channel #report carrick report only please Yeltsin's basically saying how bad the guys from wh are... calling names and such schools closedin moscow *** NeM has left channel #report <%{ cnn: yeltsin: they (the wh) staged a surprise attack, hoping their cruelty would take everyone by surprise. dodo: the only wise move... AuBC: major traffic problems in Moscow *** jaran has left channel #report it's amazing that yeltsin lies just like clinton! yeltsin ordered the attack, and then claims on russian TV that it was the other side that attacked! *** Signoff: TuKu (frege-gw.ethz.ch noc.belwue.de) *** Signoff: Joshi (frege-gw.ethz.ch noc.belwue.de) *** Signoff: Balrog (frege-gw.ethz.ch noc.belwue.de) *** Signoff: pi (frege-gw.ethz.ch noc.belwue.de) Finnish govt says no need to increase finnish military readiness Main metro lines are closed. Yeltsin : there's no forgiveness for the offenders, because they went against peaceful city Yeltsin accuses that during negotiations build-up of forces was made *** ReDragon has joined channel #report n8dgn: please report finnish army commanders holding a meeting this morning, tho *** pi has joined channel #report *** Balrog has joined channel #report *** Joshi has joined channel #report *** Schorsch has joined channel #report *** Mode change "+ooo pi Balrog Joshi " on channel #report by noc.belwue.de Is Radio Moscow (shortwave) currently on the air? *** dog3 has joined channel #report no commentaries *** Mode change "+o dog3 " on channel #report by ww *** TREK has left channel #report Does anyone know RM shortwave frequencies? *** tao2 has left channel #report *** irc22272 has left channel #report finnish govt meeting about now Yeltzin asks people to support the army. With bare hands?! *** Signoff: gordy (Leaving) *** Packet1 has joined channel #report gst, check on #news central bank is ordered to stop transactions with criminal groups gst gopher to sunsite.unc.edu finland supports democratic developmenmt in russia, hopes it continues *** villeww has left channel #report *** Veni has joined channel #report *** Veni has left channel #report said finnish govt *** Schorsch has left channel #report democratic development!!!!!! *** Mode change "+o Joms " on channel #report by Kemo *** Verian has joined channel #report Y asks for MORAL support *** villeww has joined channel #report *** phil has joined channel #report *** [Buho] has joined channel #report *** Verian has left channel #report yeltsin asks to forget about internal friction trot: i thing they meant yeltsin.... (-; witek: yes, and it means going to the streets.. Under the bullets. Any other ideas about moral support? CBC is off the air, CTV not covering *** nice_ has joined channel #report avk: is that speech ftpable??? Y won't get active mass support this time report from washington by finnish radio correspondend, tellin what clinton has said *** Uriel has joined channel #report scott: any more on the underground access *** aphrael is now known as aph *** Signoff: tina (Leaving) somebody recorded Yeltsin speech? topfm: not fromme. I don't have equipment and (currently) I'm on dialup. *** NullSet has joined channel #report someone who has frequencies I can try to tune in russian radio? U've forgot them all still no coverage by abc, nbc, cbs yeltsin speech is pre-taped *** oleg has joined channel #report FYI yeltsin speech on #discuss > jobs: get them from sunsite.unc.edu in /pub/academic/russian-studies/russian-coup *** fivcyl has joined channel #report norway govt 'very worried' on what is going on in moscow bravo: there are no good sides over there. there are only bad sides, and worse sides. *** jaran has joined channel #report *** tfish has left channel #report *** tfish has joined channel #report newsgroup alt.current-events.russia has been created any other reports from scandinavian countries, like denmark? *zorgo* btw, I have irc logs from the LAST russian coup in ~virtual-reality/irc/papers *** Signoff: Manwe (Bad link?) *** oatbran has joined channel #report *** fivcyl has left channel #report BBS World service reports about 20 ppl being killed also chinese reports would be good, I suspect they would support parliament *** Signoff: Reb (Leaving) *** fivcyl has joined channel #report *** valik has joined channel #report Finnish communist party has also made a statement. It says that what is going on in Moscow is an attempted coup my Yeltsin!!! Institute of Skilfasovsky (emmergency medical) needs a lot of blood and first aid medicine those who transcribed the yeltsin speech, meet me on #yeltsin *** oleg has left channel #report *** irc22272 has joined channel #report *** Packet1 has left channel #report it seems that they expect hundreds of wounded my Yetsin = by yeltsin *** fivcyl has left channel #report *** Herring has joined channel #report BBS = BBC... sorry *** Mode change "+o valik " on channel #report by avk *** dodo2 has joined channel #report have yeltsin troops taken any buildings previously held by rutskoi forces? dodo: yup each side ejected the other avk!!! it's good that CNN has ceased calling the far-left communists the "right wing", and are now calling them the "hard-liners". *** dodo2 has left channel #report trot: mossovet seems to be emptying *** EricL has joined channel #report *** pekka has joined channel #report most places are calling them thge "hard-liners". *** Mode change "+o jonw " on channel #report by Kemo *** Reb has joined channel #report Ok, got to leave for the job, be back in some hour or so. Keep it up guys and thanks for the support. *** Signoff: westes (westes) finnish newspaper called them "communists" avk : Take care there man *** dora has joined channel #report *** Signoff: Soulctchr (Leaving) bravo ok be careful *** Signoff: jaran (jaran) idea-mw: a short time ago, it was very popular to call them the "right wing", in an attempt by the leftist media to discredit the conservatives in the usa by association. *** Signoff: Bravo (All the kingsmen) *** indus has left channel #report *** youred has joined channel #report *** Packet1 has joined channel #report *** n8dgn has been kicked off channel #report by Kemo men going into russian parliment *** n8dgn has joined channel #report report only Gunfire is rarer but the calibre seems to be bigger.. *** Signoff: johnfsea (Leaving) reports only please goodnight? *** Signoff: jlv (Leaving) AuBC: leader of Rutskoi forces ordered his forces to withdraw from city hall to WH woman and children prisoners in white house, CNN reporter says *** westes has joined channel #report CNN showing assault troops entering WH Finnish radio: it is calm in other parts of russia (except moscow, and that also is mostly calm. fighting is in only few places y-72 battle tank on cnn any word on Ostankino AuBC: massive build up of armour around WH *** jamesk2 has joined channel #report *** Inick has joined channel #report *** howl has left channel #report t-72 sorry *** Signoff: Gnostic (Leaving) AuBC: no actual assault on WH yet army commanders in Russian carelia have said they support Yeltsin air assault to happen *** gst has left channel #report gas may be expected as well CNN: fires being shot from WH windows *** Signoff: navillus (Leaving) *** ehud has joined channel #report *** Soulctchr has joined channel #report kemo: yeltsin supporters have taken it, as far as I know *** Signoff: zorgo (Leaving) wh people have gas masks nazir: like flamethrowers? CNN: Personnel inside the WH have gas masks dodo: taken which items civilian people visible now on streets kemo: ostakino tv center cnn: underground tunnels blocked off by yeltsin 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