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 *** Diversion has joined channel #report *** Fozz has joined channel #report fighting around white house *** Signoff: Surreal (Leaving) hmmm *** zhen has joined channel #report What is the current number of troops around the WH there? shows cnn video a white volvo just sped out of the area towards teh Kremlin *** Signoff: titan (Leaving) MTV coming up CBS news *** krupnyak has left channel #report CNN: white sedan races out of WH *** MadGnome has left channel #report with PaulyShore *** wilhelm has joined channel #report *** bYtE_ has left channel #report *** Mode change "+o Lightning " on channel #report by dog3 *** titan has joined channel #report ahak i have live coverage here. not clear who was in the sedan Radio Moscow continus reporting from moscow, on 15290 kHz, in russia yeltsin 's speech shown *** Mode change "+o shoop " on channel #report by freeside they won't white flag it..they say they are going to fight until the last shell....until they are outta ammunition.. fire continues on top fire on top of WH Tua....how about music?? black smoke from roof acroos the street sorry municiple building is also on fire moscow munical office *** aud has left channel #report *** Zark has joined channel #report *** wilhelm has left channel #report Swedish Radio: Two floors has been takenby Yeltsin troups *** Mode change "+o EricL " on channel #report by Kemo *** ANI-F has joined channel #report Someone said earlier. "Darn it! They mess up the game of missle command!" *** Signoff: Silek (cs-mail.bu.edu *.njit.edu) two flooresby WH AV starts moving *** Signoff: ajt (Ping timeout) the tanks have stopped before the water tankers; one just spun a 360 and is heading across at an angle. AV's doing doughnuts in the road íy *** Signoff: Joshi (noc.belwue.de uni-erlangen.de) *** Signoff: Balrog (noc.belwue.de uni-erlangen.de) AV circling it gyrates, looking seemingly epleptic. it's not going to last more than a day... tons of people in front of tanks Why arent their any show of aircraft there? *** Signoff: CHANI (Leaving) thousands of soldiers arounf parlament lead vehicle turning around elite vehical turning around to go back (only one) *** zhen has left channel #report *** Android has left channel #report all bank transactions of coup leader stopped by Yeltsin (Swedish Radio the armor on the bridge appears to be laving second vehical going back *** JoMM is now known as WorldNews picture of 2nd or 3rd floor hit by cannon fir *** Signoff: xyzzy (write error) question. what are the civilians doing, walking in front of the water tankers? are they the final wave of death-starred protestors? *** dhess has joined channel #report *** Signoff: mosigbit (Leaving) direct from moscow: *** zhen has joined channel #report *** Opurt has joined channel #report wh burningh *** Spidy has left channel #report tanks turning around looks like all AV's moving back *** Action: Piker invites you to channel #pub *** Who_ has joined channel #report helicopters around wh *** Signoff: ReDragon (Bad link?) Earthquake in India *** mytzlplk has left channel #report tanks fire at wh Earthquake in India unwilling to cross the row of civilians, the column of tanks are now moving around. *** Balrog has joined channel #report *** Joshi has joined channel #report av convoy on bridge breaking up, pulling back *** Mode change "+oo Balrog Joshi " on channel #report by uni-erlangen.de they are taking te wh AV's going away *** Signoff: avk (Bad link?) heavy small arms fire heavy fires *** bored has joined channel #report oo??? *** krupnyak has joined channel #report cnn live from moscow 10000 dead in Maharastra State India aph you got one already?? *** Fozz has left channel #report gun fires stopped *** Zark has left channel #report people in wh should come out with white flags aph..nope....just another follow-up *** Deltafox has joined channel #report someone in moscow get out there and wave at the cameras :) ... we'll see ya. *** Signoff: Frood (Leaving) consistent small arms fire from backside is now very sporadic free: like the .su people? free: and watch them get shot... *** Herring has joined channel #report white sedan gone to kremlin *** Abinadi has joined channel #report *** Melncholy has joined channel #report 3 hours since attack began *** Sixx has left channel #report *** Mode change "+o StratMan " on channel #report by freeside *** Sixx has joined channel #report *** _ has joined channel #report *** CNN has joined channel #report *** Mode change "+o _ " on channel #report by Piker civilians looking the fighting finally tv coverage on local tv, live (san francisco) are those tanks showing off maneuverability, confused, or what.. CNN going to commercial *** Mode change "+o _ " on channel #report by WorldNews fighting apprently has stopped after the request by VP few hundred defenders in wh *** Mode change "+o CNN " on channel #report by valik Rumored: Rustoi has gone to the Kremlin radio moscow world service:airborne assault troops to occupy Moscow. Situation at television center remains tense, a second attempt to storm tv center is thought likely. *** Deltafox has left channel #report Recap please, who is the army supporting? who has the toilet bowl commerical *** avk has joined channel #report *** Mode change "+o avk " on channel #report by Peacedog stratman:yeltsin avk what have you heard *** Justin has joined channel #report everything may be over soon *** Action: WorldNews MTV News Coming Up *** Action: _ IRCLIVE: Test *** Signoff: hayes (hayes) <-- TB commercial...now piano music commercial *** Ozone has joined channel #report *** Signoff: thorsten (Leaving) what that was live report from moscwo avk: typical boring monday morning :) *** KinSlayr has joined channel #report *** Signoff: westes (westes) *** WorldNews is now known as SportsNew *** Ozone has left channel #report *** Signoff: titan (Leaving) intrewiev with gorby now *** SportsNew is now known as Sports *** Mode change "-m " on channel #report by maint *** Mode change "+m " on channel #report by maint *** Ozone has joined channel #report *** bYtE_ has joined channel #report *** Signoff: Sisko (bbl) said he is ready to become leader of russia if people want him *** KinSlayr has left channel #report piano by candlelight on cnn *** Hack has joined channel #report *** Signoff: mortso (Leaving) *** Sports is now known as SpoRTNews Swedish TV: Lot of weapons on lose in moscow *** seventh has joined channel #report CNN back *** Signoff: c0610155 (Leaving) *** cklausme has joined channel #report recap of tank fire reply of tank shot *** Deem has joined channel #report *** Mode change "+o Who_ " on channel #report by _ clinton on tv now... Swedish TV: White flag up on floor 5 *** DedDog has joined channel #report 1969 world series *** lbrock has joined channel #report *** Action: _ IRCLIVE: Earlier t72 tank fires into the White House, Russia. t hear cannonade.. *** bystander has joined channel #report one thing i notice that no one has mentioned here - a moderate amount of people hanging out to watch, apparently nato says russian events make nato more important *** Michael has joined channel #report *** Lippy has left channel #report again no reports on cbs, abc, nbc *** Michael has left channel #report Swedish TV: Report of white flag on floor 5, WH seen *** sQyrm has left channel #report *** sQyrm has joined channel #report *** Michael has joined channel #report *** sQyrm has left channel #report finnish govt holding a meeting, supports yeltsin hmm Firing stopped yeah. joms: ok we'll watch on cnn the last 8 hours of this channel and the text from irc-news is available on sunsite.unc.edu for FTP and gopher *** Action: _ IRCLIVE: Fireing now. calm in russian finnish border neither Polish government nor Polish president had issued any comments on current events in Moscow *** SpoRTNews is now known as JoMM *** Action: _ IRCLIVE: Gunshots still. as is a vague form of the yeltsin address. ftp:/pub/academic/russian-studies/russian-coup/ and gopher:/coup.d *** Signoff: Abinadi (Bad link?) Joms: that hasn't been confirmed *** gwion has joined channel #report *** krupnyak has left channel #report Near Lenin museum communist meeting will take place at 10am (NOW?) *** sean has joined channel #report *** JoMM has left channel #report light firing from guns *** NeM has left channel #report *** Action: _ IRCLIVE: Pistol/Rifle fire has now stopped. cnn: no slgn of white flags CNN: No sign of white flag *** maint has left channel #report haha *** Mode change "+o-o sean CNN " on channel #report by CNN echo echo if somebody want to receive latest news from russian news agencies, can send there isn't going to be a white flag....IMHO nope andr: send *** Woolf has joined channel #report *** titan has joined channel #report och nu detsamma p} svenska... that house will fall. Camera man on CNN searching WH building, too seek for white flag *** Mode change "+s " on channel #report by sean *** Zark has joined channel #report cnn video from moscow... *** Mode change "-too dodo Joms " on channel #report by sean *** Mode change "-oo dog3 valik " on channel #report by sean *** Mode change "-oo jhi Kezerk " on channel #report by sean *** Mode change "-oo Maage ppin " on channel #report by sean *** Mode change "-snoo trot newbie " on channel #report by sean *** Mode change "-moo StratMan gavroche " on channel #report by sean *** Mode change "+o jhi " on channel #report by Peacedog *** Mode change "+o trot " on channel #report by Peacedog *** Mode change "-o sean " on channel #report by Calboy cnn correspondent dropped glass fuck sean *** Mode change "-o+b sean *!*sww0906@*.cs.rit.edu " on channel #report by _ *** sean has been kicked off channel #report by _ thanks *** Signoff: Orveny (Orveny) *** Splat has joined channel #report *** Signoff: CNN (Leaving) *** Woolf has left channel #report *** Mode change "+o Splat " on channel #report by _ thanks _ ugh report only *poof* *** Signoff: FinnTV (Leaving) kill sean Can we send on this channel yet? *** Mode change "+o avk " on channel #report by Kemo avk sorry about that *** Mode change "+nt " on channel #report by Piker *** bowski has joined channel #report the modes are messed up fractal hj fix the modes... Any sports news? *** Mode change "+m " on channel #report by topfm *** Signoff: lbrock (Ping timeout) *** Signoff: titan (Leaving) *** Piker has changed the topic on channel #report to WAR in MOSCOW - Read only. *** Mode change "+o aph " on channel #report by Kemo *** Mark has left channel #report mode +m sure aph *** seventh has left channel #report AV's going underneath the bridge someone take control here please. i sould but i don't know how. *** bYtE_ has left channel #report any irc ops here *** jha has joined channel #report *** Melncholy has left channel #report yea kemo *** Signoff: DedDog (Leaving) *** Mode change "+o Joms " on channel #report by Piker kemo::: *** Ozone has left channel #report english broadcast on radio moscow world service is very quiet on the latest events. *** Signoff: cklausme (Leaving) *** ark has joined channel #report AV's moving nearing the WH tanks are moving into closer position on the other side of the river; tank coming towards wh *** Mode change "+o Cryo " on channel #report by topfm another tanks coming down prospect Quit passing ops out another tank moving close to WH *** bystander has left channel #report Eric: In russia they cover it live *** Idea-MW has joined channel #report piker: many people have things to report *** bowski has left channel #report *** ark has left channel #report *** Melncholy has joined channel #report *** Signoff: ppin (Ping timeout) *** Signoff: Michael (Leaving) *** [Buho] has left channel #report *** Ozone has joined channel #report cannon of the tank aimed toward the WH *** Signoff: bagera (Leaving) *** Joe-Dude has joined channel #Report *** pweent has left channel #report *** Ozone has left channel #report *** jpc has joined channel #Report *** Action: _ IRCLIVE: This is a test of the MOSCOW IRC NEWS *** Mode change "+o Cryo " on channel #report by Kemo AV's at foot steps of WH *** GROO has joined channel #report *** Ozone has joined channel #report *** Channel Users Topic *** #report 156 WAR in MOSCOW - Read only. thats quite a feat. *** Signoff: oleg (bbl) ;) *** Wolf has joined channel #report *** Wildhack has joined channel #report Piker: New Guinness record? *** nobby has left channel #report fires by gov. troops in hotel to give cover to advancing paratroopers *** adam has joined channel #report reports only please anyone has the score for gulf war? High shooting again heavy I mean tanks moving around apcs russian tv now getting cnn shots *** Splat has left channel #report *** Veggen has joined channel #report *** tar has joined channel #report *** sslama has joined channel #report What are the chances of the troops turning on Yeltsin and freeing the people in the white house? :) *** mad has joined channel #report *** gwion has left channel #report INTERFAX can see a white flag ? *** ANI-F has left channel #report Piker: Very limit, as is now *** Signoff: mad (Leaving) slim CNN cannot confirm that about as likely that Bill is going to fly f-15's over there to help boris.. *** Rapier has joined channel #report News only please. Discussion on #discuss. *** Mode change "+o Sixx " on channel #report by Piker *** maint has joined channel #report *** tenAC has joined channel #report *** bystander has joined channel #report *** pori has joined channel #report Ok *** Ozone has left channel #report *** whoosie has left channel #report Otherwise I will starting giving my opinions. B-) *** fatima has joined channel #report *** Action: _ IRCLIVE: NO-IDLE CHATTER HERE PLEASE *** Mode change "+oo newbie Zapwig " on channel #report by Kemo *** You have new mail. *** Signoff: bystander (Leaving) rueters: spokesman for yeltsin says no negotiations zapwig please report *** Kirin has joined channel #report *** wwt3 has joined channel #report cnn: reuters: yeltsins spokesman nmo negotiations. time for negotiations is over. they canonly surrender weapons and come out yeltsin: no more negotiations report: time for neg. is over (says yelston) *** Media has joined channel #report reuters: surrender or fight *** Signoff: Uriel (Leaving) ABC in NY is on the phone with a reporter across the street from WH fire seen inside the WH *** Signoff: Wolf (Leaving) *** Signoff: gst (gst) CNN: Yeltsin say, Surrender or fight, no negiotions reporter on phone states "he saw NO white flags" flames can be seen through the smoke in the white house more APC movement ooops city hall still smiking *** Signoff: Rapier (Bad link?) smiking=smoking could someone display sites where logs are abc showing old news. *** Signoff: shoop (Ping timeout) ATV10 Australia news shows assault troops backed up by paratroops running towards WH blaze halfway up moscow municipal bldg kemo, sites are on #news *** tenAC has left channel #report fires inside wh logs at sunsite.unc.edu *** Media has left channel #report thanks freeside AV nearing end of bridge *** wwt3 has left channel #report *** Deem has left channel #report tanks are back at the water truck blocade apc approaches water tanks and stops at water tank *** Signoff: sslama (Leaving) tanks are back on bridge ap[c break through water tanks and approaches white house *** wwt3 has joined channel #report AV pushes the water tankers Shoting has resumed tanks thru tank have broken accross the bridge apcs have pushed water tanks aside *** whoosie has joined channel #report *** Zark has left channel #report apcs fast towards white house tons of civilians out in middle of battle uh, that wasn't a hard feat. lot of civilians out on streets now, 10.20 am Moscow local time approaching drive way to WH *** hock has joined channel #report *** Cindy has joined channel #report itar-tass: cnn: 5 lower floors of white house have been retaken 5 floors tass: 5 lower floors taken *** Action: _ IRCLIVE: 25 confirmed dead. heavy gunfire tanks are shooting at white house in back *** eugene has joined channel #report *** murdle has joined channel #report *** Signoff: Joe-Dude (Leaving) Eugene!! interfax: cnn: rutskoi has agreed to leave with white flag *** RenB has joined channel #report Interfax: says exVP to leave WH with white flag interfax news says VP say he will leave the WH with white flag rouski said to ready to leave bldg with white flag from interfax Report from AP reporter Karen Sloan near White House: she says an apartment building is on fire as well as the municipal bldg. (abc tv ny showing Yeltzin's speech) *** Action: _ IRCLIVE: Braves clinch NL West heavy shooting behind white house bldg *** Jeff01 has joined channel #report *** sQyrm has joined channel #report *** Mode change "+o eugene " on channel #report by Calboy gunfire (heavy) heavy gunfire very loud ...and they call it small arms fire...hmmm nops *** sunshyne has joined channel #report *** Signoff: gavroche (brb) new source *** pweent has joined channel #report closer gunfire no more ops *** bigal has joined channel #report *** hock has left channel #report *** RenB has left channel #report *** jamieson has joined channel #report Piker he is from Russia *** nobby has joined channel #report thats ok.. he can have ops :) let me begin with you a lot of cannon fire back of WH lots of cannon fire around back reports only please - discuss in #discuss interfax via french agency *** Signoff: avk (Bad link?) ABC TV NY live - "heavy gunfire" *** pweent has left channel #report entrance 20 is to be stopped firing on *** adam is now known as Orveny interfax: afp: cnn: rutskoi has agreed to leave. govt has ordered its troops to stop firing near entrance 20 to allow surrender *** RAgent has joined channel #report gov. asks troops not to fire the enterence of WH People's Party of Russia is beginning to exclude Rutskoi from its memebers the party was founded by Rutskoi *** Action: _ REPORTS/News ONLY PLEASE! entrance 20, the bunker is where rutskoi is said to leave troops still shooting *** Action: _ IRCLIVE: Heavy gunfire in process. I wonder what's going on elsewhere around the country. With the world's eye focused on this small sector of Moscow, what about elsewhere -- local provincials planning more autonomy attempts, civilians packing airports like '59 Cuba. *** shoop has joined channel #report *** Action: _ IRCLIVE: Helicopter in area. lots of sporadic shooting *** Zoulou has joined channel #report troops not stopping, irespective of instructions to the left of wh more fire *** MadGnome has joined channel #report various arms *** jpc is now known as Movado *** Ghostie has joined channel #report *** ING1085 has joined channel #report cnn: fire from roof of white house *** Signoff: pori (Leaving) Note that any claims about the orders are purely rumor-mill material. *** ING1085 has left channel #report *** ajt has joined channel #report *** Signoff: murdle (write error) Av - you mean when it dies it won't core,or you can't make it die? flames on roof sorry. cannon fired on WH *** Mode change "-o Lightning " on channel #report by Lightning *** lex has joined channel #report *** Signoff: oatbran (best of luck to all.) *** Signoff: lex (Bad link?) *** Action: _ IRCLIVE: Has several LIVE CAMERA coverage in Moscow. troops stormed from "entrance 20" *** RelliK has joined channel #report *** bigal has left channel #report *** Signoff: Alex-1 (Leaving) }inewbie: "from" or "to" *** lex has joined channel #report *** Movado is now known as JoeGod *** Signoff: RelliK (Bad link?) *** vegas has joined channel #report ABC TV NY live -- "reporter on phone - can't hear for noise from gunfire" *** RelliK has joined channel #report *** Signoff: geirp (irc.nada.kth.se mimir.ifi.uio.no) *** Signoff: oi (irc.nada.kth.se mimir.ifi.uio.no) *** tcb has joined channel #report fire inside the bldg *** Signoff: RAgent (Bad link?) flames inside white house city hall still on fire *** Kirin has left channel #report severe damage onWH cnn reporter mumbling *** wwt3 has left channel #report *** Sardonic has joined channel #Report *** Action: _ IRCLIVE: Smoke fills the air. Gunfire still in process. about municiple building. mosovet on fire *** _Codex has joined channel #report "heavy gunfire continuing -- showing no mercy" *** Signoff: Maja (Leaving) "time for negotiations has passed, time for surrender is now" *** Signoff: eugene (Leaving) ABC NY - personell moving amongst APCs *** Signoff: Evile (Leaving) *** Fingwe has joined channel #report returning fire from inside WH another cannon fired another cannon another cannon fired *** Signoff: Wildhack (Bad link?) *** Mode change "+o shoop " on channel #report by freeside *** Mode change "-o freeside " on channel #report by _ *** Mode change "-o shoop " on channel #report by _ *** Mode change "+o freeside " on channel #report by Peacedog *** Mode change "-o Peacedog " on channel #report by _ *** Mode change "-o freeside " on channel #report by _ bbc: firing from clock tower not a tank *** Signoff: RelliK (Leaving) *** Wildhack has joined channel #report [erspnnel running from apc to apc *** Fingwe has left channel #report *** Mode change "+o freeside " on channel #report by topfm *** Mode change "-o topfm " on channel #report by _ *** Mode change "-o freeside " on channel #report by _ *** RAgent has joined channel #report *** Action: _ IRCLIVE: 4 tanks parked in front of the white house entrance. *** Mode change "-o _ " on channel #report by Cryo *** _ has been kicked off channel #report by Kemo *** _ has joined channel #report *** Mode change "+o freeside " on channel #report by newbie HC are back *** Alex-1 has joined channel #report *** Signoff: _ (Killed) copter are back *** _ has joined channel #report duh :) CNN bbc world service:live report-gunfire continues.....mayors office is on fire AV's in front of WH *** kipa has joined channel #report lame kill *** oi has joined channel #report *** geirp has joined channel #report *** Mode change "+o geirp " on channel #report by mimir.ifi.uio.no *** Mode change "-o geirp " on channel #report by Logging *** fatima has left channel #report *** youred has left channel #report *** Signoff: _ (Bad link?) helicopter shot *** spud has joined channel #report shot as in picture *** jute has joined channel #report *** Lenzman has joined channel #report *** Mode change "+o shoop " on channel #report by freeside more cannon fire heavy shooting from chopper heavy fire again ... two cannon fires another cannon fire in front heavy cannon fire on WH more cannon fire 2 more returned by small fire more cannon fired another shot to front heavy cannon f ire rutskoi does not having w orking telephones .... communication by radio NBC TV NY -- "appears standoff is coming to an end" *** Fa has joined channel #report *** Mode change "+o Fa " on channel #report by Who_ (source: interfax) cnn: interfazx's phone inside white house isn't working any more they have walkies talkies to comunicate with Interfax flag still waving proudly on top of WH *** Signoff: undead (brb) *** Zith has joined channel #report *** Mode change "+o jamesk2 " on channel #report by Cryo :)) NBC NY - "white flag waved moments ago" last announcement before I get some sleep- logs for the last 15 hours of this channel as well as supporting material from ircnews is available on sunsite.unc.edu; ftp:/pub/academic/russian-studies/russian-coup gopher:/coup.d *** Signoff: tcb (tcb) *** undead has joined channel #report *** Asdon has joined channel #report tank fire *** Mode change "+o topfm " on channel #report by freeside *** Asdon has left channel #report another (two cannons *** ducky has left channel #report *** Signoff: shoop (Leaving) fire hit side of hotel (NBC - white flag source: soldier in Ukraine Hotel - reporters havent seen it) gunfire hit the nearby hotel *** Sal_ has joined channel #report *** okram has joined channel #report hotel is being fired upon russian reporters inside wh *** _ has joined channel #report *** crisper has joined channel #report *** Mode change "+o _ " on channel #report by Piker *** Mode change "-oo _ Piker " on channel #report by Kemo *** blonde has joined channel #report newbie: which hotel? *** Deem has joined channel #report *** pif has joined channel #report or wasit fire frm hotel? *** Signoff: whoosie (Leaving) *** maguz has joined channel #report *** mad has joined channel #report trot: hotel mir *** Signoff: Cindy (Leaving) not sure *** SpaceFox has left channel #report *** Lenzman has left channel #report *** Signoff: kipa (Leaving) *** Signoff: crisper (Leaving) did the hotel fire or was it fired upon? hotel was fired on *** Deem has left channel #report ABC- mayors bldg on fire just what #report needs a deoping bot.. black barrays would not allowed to be photographed Earlier report was that troops are in Hotel Mir. *** blonde has left channel #report was helicopter shot down? *** Mode change "+oo Piker _ " on channel #report by Who_ foolish bystanders *** whoosie has joined channel #report no shopper shot down *** pif has left channel #report *** Mode change "+o Piker " on channel #report by Kemo five floors in control *** muet has joined channel #report NBC- 3 choppers circling with missiles *** Mode change "+o MadGnome " on channel #report by _ *** Syrk has joined channel #REPORT *** Signoff: karenina (Leaving) *** Signoff: Herring (Bad link?) three HC in area *** Bok has joined channel #report *** Jonathan has joined channel #report do not deop people reporting Hotel was firing OUT cameraman saw sniper in window *** Mode change "+o fractal " on channel #report by Kemo cnn: gunfire coming out of the international hotel 1 mi away part of hotel on fire *** Lancer_ has joined channel #report fractal please report that *** Maja has joined channel #report NBC- 5 floors of WH retaken by govt forces *** Action: _ IRCLIVE: /2 hi Perrin!! *** Signoff: dog3 (arf) *** Mode change "+o jha " on channel #report by Kemo check it out *** Channel Users Topic *** #report 166 WAR in MOSCOW - Read only. *** sslama has joined channel #report *** aliena has joined channel #report *** freeside has changed the topic on channel #report to discussion on #discuss only, recap on #news *** pif has joined channel #report NBC-- interfax reports Rutskoy surrenders *** voidmstr has joined channel #report NBC- 8 floors secured *** Perrin has joined channel #report *** Mode change "+o Perrin " on channel #report by _ rumor: Rutskoi has agreed to white flag *** thostr has joined channel #report small arm street fighting *** ostrik has joined channel #report *** sslama has left channel #report *** Mode change "-o _ " on channel #report by Piker how many floors are there in the building, anyway? looks to be about 30. news from Los Angeles, tonight, is dominated by talk-shows blathering about Clinton's taxes and health-care plan... nothing on abc, nbc, cbs here in boston *** Jonathan has left channel #report *** mad has left channel #report *** Lancer_ has left channel #report *** pif has left channel #report *** Signoff: whoosie (Leaving) *** Mode change "+o _ " on channel #report by Piker AGAIN- NBC reports that interfax reports Rutskoi agrees to white flag heavy arm fired at back of WH *** maint has left channel #report that and the few others remaining are going on about a local murder trial *** Brainstor has joined channel #report *** Mode change "-o fractal " on channel #report by jha *** BEMATTISO has joined channel #report *** Sal_ has left channel #report *** Mode change "+oo fractal artiste " on channel #report by Kemo *** Mode change "+o ostrik " on channel #report by jonw *** Action: ostrik thanks jonw nothing on radio here in Portland Or either except my old station is carrying live AP reports; I'll transcribe the next one in about 3 minutes. please report artiste shell hit side of hotel CNN reporter now reverses statement...hotel is being fired upon cnn: someone is firing at the international hotel probaby both. Hotel is being fired at according to CNN hey, ppl! Wish to have some info from Mosow? no live coverage from Seattle network feeds. someone is firing at the international hotel hotel fired upon hey, ppl! Wish to have some info from Moscow? ostrik!! cnn: visiting guests in hotel, people residing in it are not parties to conflict *** Signoff: okram (Bad link?) piker : here i am :) *** okram has joined channel #report *** msa has joined channel #report EVERYONE!! ostrik: yeah please report Ostrik is from Moscow! Yes vlad. tell us! cnn: hotel is office tower with western businesses ... british airways, western airlines, etc piker : I just sit near RED SQUARE, and see wonderfull war. Wave at us.. we can see you on TV :) *** eugene has joined channel #report hehe..how can you irc from Moscow? joms : It's simple :) reports only please *** Bok has left channel #report eugene- whats goes on there? Obviously. Ostrik has been here fore a while. *** Mode change "+o eugene " on channel #report by Calboy *** Signoff: Sixx (Bad link?) According to *** Signoff: Wildhack (Leaving) *** Dura has joined channel #report *** Wildhack has joined channel #report *** Bok has joined channel #report NY: abc nbc cbs at commercial troops standing behind the AV's in front of WH sorry, guys, my english not so fine, but i'll try to describe. *** Signoff: Perrin (Bad link?) ostrik do the best you can unconfrimed reports general Makashov has commited suicide *** Signoff: Idea-MW (Ping timeout) *** guardian has joined channel #report We havea transcriptionist here.. ostrik: How far from WH are you? eugene great *** Mode change "+o Lightning " on channel #report by Piker *** Zith has left channel #report *** Action: _ REPORTS/News ONLY PLEASE! Eugene: was he supporting Rutskoi? cnn: speculating about trials for survivors *** Lightning is now known as CNN *** Mode change "+o Maja " on channel #report by Kemo AP live report: Rutzkoi has told premire minister that he wants to start talk in the building *** Action: _ IRCLIVE: Transcriber online now. Live CNN voice coverage. :) oof parliament if I can keep up.. *** Signoff: geirp (Bad link?) *** Mode change "+o CNN " on channel #report by _ *** Jonathan has joined channel #report *** NEC3D has joined channel #report AP: Army tanks firing huge shells into parliament. Smoke rising high into sky. *** neat has joined channel #report Calboy: yes Makashov organized the @defence of WH" *** Panic has joined channel #report *** oi has left channel #report *** Signoff: Petri (2-work) the kremlin has a statement.. evgeny : DAvay po russki, narod ponimaet. Kremlin will guarantee their safety if they surrender AP: Karen Sloan live: says she hasn't seen any sign of white flags or negotiations. that would garauntee the safety iif they come out. *** muet has left channel #report *** Israfel has joined channel #report *** klahn has joined channel #report after initial period....would be allowed to go home.. AP: defenders continuing to respond with machine gun fire. *** mytzlplk has joined channel #report But Chernomydrin answerred that white house must stop fire and show white flags should be clear that there ar very fe political leaders inside.. *** Signoff: Davinator (Ping timeout) a number of deputies...(can't here the rest)... very few national political leaders are left... *** Signoff: sQyrm (Leaving) *** Davinator has joined channel #report AP: Firefight on one side of parliament complex. Footsoldiers involved in street battle near hotel. most of the remaining are the hard-core underlings *** Signoff: Wildhack (Leaving) *** Mode change "+o nobby " on channel #report by qq CNN going to commercial cnn: commercial I can't type and hear at teh same time...really sorry...:( Otherwise I coudl do this..:( ostrik: i can interpret MCI commercial on here. *** Signoff: Israfel (Leaving) *** CNN is now known as Lightning *** Ghostie has left channel #report *** Signoff: Joms (Shit.. my phonebill goes wacky! Thanks CNN for live coverage :) hey, russian folks, you can speak in russian. i`ll interpret *** nobby has been kicked off channel #report by jha who cares about commercials.. news/reports only please. *** Signoff: phe (Leaving) *** Signoff: JoeGod (Leaving) According to Interfax and Postfactum there is white flag on one of the sides of the building *** Wildhack has joined channel #report *** Piker has left channel #report *** nobby has joined channel #report *** hsu has joined channel #report i can tell this is almost over, fools are entering *** You have new mail. *** Signoff: okram (Leaving) the TV coverage here in middle Europe consists of CNN picture with local voice-over on all first programs of state TV's I can see here (austrian, italian, local, croatian TV) nobby : a komy tu budesh' perevodit'? Vsem? *** blonde has joined channel #report Accroding to news there 1 killed and 3 wounded from attacking -- propresident side *** Signoff: lex (Leaving) *** Action: _ invites you to channel #pub CNN is back. *** Mode change "+o nobby " on channel #report by qq *** jha has left channel #report *** Mode change "+o nobby " on channel #report by Mycroft At least two civil people looking at the spectalce were wounded *** Thing has left channel #report *** blonde has left channel #report cnn: yeltsin govt is calling for surrender and show of white flags so far answer is gunfire in air *** lewd has left channel #report *** Jonathan has left channel #report Sources in White House say about 12 are killed *** Signoff: Davinator (Ping timeout) *** Jonathan has joined channel #report "do the russian people know less than we do?" "[probably.]" *** ostrik has left channel #report Ilen - well as you can see there is still smoke from the WH.. smoke comming from one window in WH white house is becoming the black house *** phil has left channel #report some more heavy fire from the right of the WH. *** Davinator has joined channel #report *** jha has joined channel #report among the defenders opposite from the deputy offices.. ABC live pix- gunfire .. black smoke... *** Yawns has joined channel #report they are across the bridge and river from the whitehousse (tanks) *** Melncholy has left channel #report cnn: still smoke billowing from whitehouse offices of deputies on fire tanks across the river with passersby inbetween these people wanna stand there cause there is fire oming from the WH (don't wanna I guess) did have a report from inside.. *** oleg has joined channel #report *** Signoff: magester (Leaving) *** Melncholy has joined channel #report cnn: two bodyguards of khasbulatov have been injured saying that damaged two bodygaurd injured, but he and the reporter were ok. ABC - gunfire audible - "some news services reporting Rutskoi asking for discussion" *** Signoff: Sardonic (Leaving) there's a fire in the WH lower floor some sources from White House say that the building is really on fire total (maybe maybe not) but 20 floors all, I've got to get some sleep. muscovites take care and good luck. thanks to all for hard work! ABC live pix - black smoke from bldg "user this in the classroom, all learning a great deal". *** Signoff: Lynsa (Leaving) duhl man running with shield CNN encourages that this newscoverage be used in classrooms.. sigh *** Melncholy has left channel #report *** Signoff: Alex-1 (Leaving) cnn picture frozen Accrording to PF Rutzkoi made a phone call to Zor'kin asking to "stop violence" from President's side. What son of a bitch!! *** Signoff: kivinen (Bad link?) what are they teaching? *** Signoff: hsu (hsu) *** kivinen has joined channel #report *** Signoff: GROO (Leaving) *** Signoff: vegas (Leaving) there is white flag on the top of WH, on the 1st and 2d floors are paratroopers, so goverment suggested to Rutskoi to find exit trough which defenders could leave building, according to Interfax cnn: military units all over country, yeltsin can;t be sure all will support him military structure has indicated loyalty *** Signoff: Soulctchr (Need my beauty sleep :-) ) will be back in 2 minutes with hot new *** Signoff: jha (Leaving) *** spud has left channel #report *** Melncholy has joined channel #report cnn": this must have e3nded any quixotic dreams rutskoi had of getting military support *** lewd has joined channel #report squad walking behind moving apc *** jha has joined channel #report people hiding behind apc *** Signoff: eugene (Leaving) *** Signoff: Hemp2 (Bad link?) *** irc has joined channel #report *** Thing has joined channel #report AV moving with troops hiding behind it *** Signoff: jha (Leaving) people pushing an apc on foot .... away from white house behind water tanks *** klahn has left channel #report *** Hack is now known as Hacker *** emsi has joined channel #report not behind it, beside it .. for cover. *** krupnyak has joined channel #report cnn: not clear why anyone sould still be holding out *** Signoff: Inick (Inick) *** lbrock has joined channel #report *** Inick has joined channel #report *** Melncholy has left channel #report cnn: american embassy has been hit by rounds, reuters reports ... marine on duty injured us embassy hit by rounds US EMBASSY HAS BEEN HIT!! American Embassy has been fired upon, US Marine was injured USA emb. was hit ealier *** aflux has joined channel #report CNN/rueturs reports us embassy has been hit by gunfire US Emb has been evac'd. cnn: us families moved from quarters in embassy to safer g round CBS TVV NY (few minutes ago) "why would they give up??" ARGH *** krupnyak has left channel #report of civilians one US marine was injured was a stray round APC stopped earlier report of french journalist shot. any news? apc stopped at tree line *** Signoff: qq (Ein Wort? Nein, jamais) *** Signoff: thostr (Leaving) soldiers sitting under trees behind apc sporadic cannon fires still going on at back of WH they're breaking out a map *** krupnyak has joined channel #report *** lewd has left channel #report cnn: no sign whatsoever of anyone w white fdlag... khasbulatov and rutskoi are still in wh *** eugene has joined channel #report *** Who_ has left channel #report *** Signoff: krupnyak (Leaving) two parliment minins=ters (one defence) in the WH with VP *** Signoff: undead (Bad link?) apc moving fast up broad towards wh another tank proceding apc moving on bridge imazing the amount of people on the treets *** NEC3D has left channel #report streets *** mvg has joined channel #report *** Ghostie has joined channel #report squad deployed troops taking cover in trees, apc that was providing cover moving off apc moving, troops still in bushes, but apc is going back away from bushes APC backs away, troops move out *** artiste has left channel #report men vanishes into the trees, AV goes back more troops on green troops in trees have boxes of something troops walking towards wh under cover of trees *** jnopanen has joined channel #report *** Mode change "+o eugene " on channel #report by Kemo *** aliena has left channel #report some kind of suitcase...brown with a handle *** Signoff: ccdavid (Bad link?) *** Signoff: pyro (Bad link?) *** Signoff: Inick (Bad link?) xD/list #report rutoski now says he never authorized negotiations gun fire increasing. *** Michael has joined channel #report *** lewd has joined channel #report as i understand all talks are going through Interfax xorrespondent bring in the copters *** vchang has joined channel #report thought the interfax was dead....via NBC reports.. *** tpartane has joined channel #report *** Signoff: lbrock (Ping timeout) *** timbomb has joined channel #report *** Isch has joined channel #report first two floors occupied by paratroopers -- confirmed *** klahn has joined channel #report *** Melncholy has joined channel #report eugene - first eight :) smoke from the WH window apears to have lessened j/k interfax girl was wounded *** undead has joined channel #report *** lewd has left channel #report *** geirp has joined channel #report fire comming from middle of clock at top of WH gun position in middle of the clock on the white house tower .... sniper fire from clock ABC TV NY live - no more black smoke choppers still hovering ABC: no flames/smoke as earlier CNN can't figure out why people would be standing around in a firefight snipper apprently at the clock at top of WH *** genghis has joined channel #report *** YKI has joined channel #report *** aflux has left channel #report *** Vampyre has joined channel #report *** hogg has joined channel #report *** Signoff: klahn (Bad link?) *** klahn has joined channel #report *** Thomaz has joined channel #report *** Lancer_ has joined channel #report Chernomyrdin asked the defenders to leave WH without weapons *** Signoff: mvg (Leaving) *** karenina has joined channel #report at least women and children -- if any *** YKI has left channel #report cnn: american women and children have been moved to safe locations *** Signoff: ElfQuest (ElfQuest disapears in a puff of smoke!! *bamf*) *** ZipZap has joined channel #report graphic of downtown area showing embassy, wh, municibple building, and cnn HQ american embassy people moved into impregnable position CNN building is across river from WH and Municiple building *** Signoff: sunshyne (sunshyne) ABC TV: "this is a fight for whos going to control the govt" DUH. *** Signoff: oleg (Leaving) cnn: all quiet on the front ABC TV NY live: "at the moment some shots being heard" *** Signoff: vchang (Leaving) *** Thomaz has left channel #report *** ttm has joined channel #report *** Lightning has left channel #report Zapwig: Foolish ABC TV Rutzkoi cant' control the gov :) CNN compares the public reaction in the area to that of Bull Run (US Civil war) where picnic baskets and bands were brought out to what was thought to be a very short bloodless battle. *** SpeedBump has joined channel #report ABC: "soldiers taken first 4 floors plrmnt bldg" cnn: it's a shooting gallery, nothing less. not just wqith ak47s but with tanks and cannons. puzzling why spectators are so close *** Herring has joined channel #report they should shoot some abc people *** inick has joined channel #report CBS radio "this is not a funny situation" *** bungy has joined channel #report CNN speculates "most of these people [civilian spectators] are gawkers" *** eks has joined channel #report *** fred3 has joined channel #report dead silance let me offer my proposal on who these people are: they're protestors who came into the city very recently, and did not participate in too much of the protestations. they can't go home, because they have no home in moscow; they can't just leave the scene, ABC ruskoi surrenders? ABC: "rutskoi ready to surrender" two idiots are hiding behind some wood. *** Signoff: ChainSaw (Leaving) because the wh is what they came for. so they're just standing around waiting for some sort of resolution. ABC: crowds gathering *** dsimons has joined channel #report Moscow Tv is now broadcasting CNN reports scattered gunshots *** Mode change "+o dodo " on channel #report by newbie crowds seem to be accumulating more heavily *** Tarot has joined channel #report *** Signoff: jukkao (Leaving) hundrads of bystanders are between tanks shooting and WH ABC: "???white flags??? not seen by reporter" bystanders standing between tank and the WH *** Idea-MW has joined channel #report *** Signoff: Reb (Ping timeout) huge crowd gathering running across road by water tanks *** Keesha has joined channel #report Hmm Ironic The Life of Hitler now being played on an US cable channel *** Signoff: karenina (irc.funet.fi lehtori.cc.tut.fi) *** Signoff: Brainstor (irc.funet.fi lehtori.cc.tut.fi) *** Signoff: _Codex (irc.funet.fi lehtori.cc.tut.fi) *** 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) tons of people out (waiting for toilet??) ABC: flapping white curtains in windows crowd runnning across bridge (tanks which were firing formerly, though not now) bystanders running across the end of the bridge people have started to run ABC: things quiet last few min. bystanders scattering...getting off the bridge no obvoius reason *** Signoff: genghis (Leaving) I gonna watch a few minutes ABC: crowds moving onto bridge. (They just cut OFF reporter for commerical !!) ARGH *** Signoff: jamieson (jamieson) *** Tarot has left channel #report *** Keesha has left channel #report cant tell what they're runnign from or toward *** Signoff: ttm (Leaving) Crowd has clearl grown (doubled?) near bridge over the past 30 minutes lots of fire from closer to the CNN HQ bystandards making a blocade where the water tanker was pushed off oh they joys of commercial broadcasting ;) crowds may be supporters of rutskoi CNN going to commercial *** hogg has left channel #report *** Kezerk has joined channel #report Standoff is over, Fight for the WH is on (commercial) *** drop-out has joined channel #report *** Maage has joined channel #report *** pekka has joined channel #report *** _Codex has joined channel #report *** Brainstor has joined channel #report *** karenina has joined channel #report *** Mode change "+o drop-out " on channel #report by lehtori.cc.tut.fi *** Mode change "-o drop-out " on channel #report by Logging *** pin has joined channel #report Reason is clear: `briefcases' were bombs. (personal opinion) cbs reporing health care *** arnd has joined channel #report *** Reb has joined channel #report *** peetu has joined channel #report an idiot singing :)))) *** Signoff: dsimons (Leaving) *** Mode change "+o Michael " on channel #report by Kemo *** Signoff: ajt (Leaving) *** gah has joined channel #report *** Amy has joined channel #report well anyways guys, it's been fun, but i'm going to sleep. would anyone here like to keep running NewsBot? I'll dcc the code, and you can run it ... *** mosigbit has joined channel #report freeside thanks for your help *** ttm has joined channel #report OPinon :fast way of ending the war is to Drop Hillary Clinton on the Russian White House!