SOVIET UNION

(2 Sep 1991) USSR 27.8.91 WS Parliament: PAN and ZOOM to cameraman: MOLDAVIA Deputies in parliament: signing of declaration by male Kishinev deputy, then female deputy: WS parliament: applause: standing ovation: champagne poured: hugging and kissing: man with child applauding: exteriors happy crowd: (WTN) RUSSIA 27.8.91 Soviet President, Mikhail Gorbachev, addressing Moscow Supreme Soviet: CA Deputies listening: Colonel Vilian Aroutiounovich Martirossian from the Ukraine, telling Deputies the army leadership is still a threat: exteriors of bronze plaque of Andropov on wall in Red Square: crowd: plaque covered: (TSS) ( ) BELGIUM 27.8.91 Exteriors European Community building: UK Brussels Foreign Secretary, Douglas Hurd, into meeting hall: GVs foreign Ministers talking informally: CU Dutch Foreign Minister, Hans van den Broek, sot, announcing that they are extending a cordial invitation to the Baltic States to attend their next meeting: Hurd at table: EC President, Jacques Delors: Van den Broek: Hurd sot, saying they never recognised the annexation of the Baltic States in the first place: (ITN) GERMANY 28.8.91 WS Ministers: German Foreign Minister, Hans Bonn Dietrich Genscher and German Chancellor, Helmut Kohl, signing: PAN along table with various baltic foreign ministers signing documents: Kohl seated: WS ministers seated and signing documents: CU Genscher: handshakes: (WTN) ( ) RUSSIA 28.8.91 Soviet President, Mikhail Gorbachev, addressing Moscow the Supreme Soviet: Deputies listening: voting board: FILE 20 August Emergency committee of eight: 28.8.91 KGB headquarters: site where statue of KGB founder stood: KGB officers interviewed: former KGB officer, Victor Kalugin, sot, in English: former Foreign Minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, hugging friends: ousted Supreme Soviet Chairman, anatoly Lukyanov, speaking to reporters: AZERBAIJAN Anti-communist demonstration: Baku RUSSIA Queues outside Kremlin in Red Square: Moscow (ITN) Moscow 28.8.91 Russian President, Boris Yeltsin, across stage to podium: speaking to returning Russian emigres: (ABC) Moscow 29.8.91 Deputies in corridor of Supreme Soviet: Alexander Yakovlev, sot: President of the Academy of the USSR, Vilikov, sot: GV front of Supreme Soviet as Deputies consider removing Anatoly Lukyanov's immunity: Speaker of the Supreme Soviet, Rafik Neshanov, sot: Deputies voting: tally board shows 360 to 2 in favour of removing immunity: GVs Deputies: Chief Soviet Prosecutor, Nikolai Truban, sot, on Lukyanov decision: (WTN) LITHUANIA 29.8.91 Danish Baltic states ambassador, Otto Borch, Vilnius with delegation, into room: Borch, sot: "The purpose of visit is to sign a note between Lithuania and Denmark confirming re-established diplomatic relations as of 2.9.91 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives ​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/46bd73fb35a375222e7ef73088e89e81