Moscow - Democracy would have been killed off in Russia if the 1991 hardline Communist coup had succeeded, President Yeltsin said on the putsch's sixth anniversary yesterday. "We would not have a democratic country now advancing along the road to reform," Mr Yeltsin said. - (AFP)
Yeltsin hails failure of coup
Moscow - Democracy would have been killed off in Russia if the 1991 hardline Communist coup had succeeded, President Yeltsin …
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