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User:Iveri R./Sandbox

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This is a sandbox, hopefully, I created this page correctly.

This User is of Georgian Ancestery
1993 Russian constitutional crisis
DateSeptember 21 - October 51993
Location
Result Coup d'état: Artillery bombardment forcing the surrender of parliament. Constitutional Court is suspended. Presidential rule by decree is imposed. Opposition political parties and newspapers are banned.
Belligerents

President of Russia
Boris Yeltsin


Ministry of Defence
Ministry of the Interior

Vice President of Russia
Alexander Rutskoy


Congress of Soviets
Constitutional Court
National Salvation Front
Commanders and leaders
RussiaPavel Grachev
Viktor Yerin
RussiaRuslan Khasbulatov
Valery Zorkin
Albert Makashov
Casualties and losses
12 killed (of which at least 9 by friendly fire)
187 killed, 437 wounded (official government estimate)
Up to 2,000 killed (other sources)