YELTSIN URGES UNIFICATION OF DEMOCRATIC FORCES.

In aninterview with Komsomolskaya pravda August 19, Russianpresident Boris Yeltsin called on democratic groups to unify againstthe threat of extremism, said he would work to find common groundwith all of them, and reported that he would reorganize the country’ssecurity services to improve the struggle against organized crimebut would not recreate the KGB. In other comments, he suggestedthat the Soviet Union had already been condemned to death by theevents in Tbilisi and Vilnius well before the August 1991 coupand that had that last effort succeeded, it would have mean thecomplete collapse of Russia as well.

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