Spot News, 2nd prize
Edward Opp
Primus Photo Agency
Primus Photo Agency
01 October, 1993
Soldiers and tanks appear on the scene of the occupied White House, becoming targets for sniper fire from the building. The power struggle between the legislature, led by Ruslan Khasbulatov and Aleksandr Rutskoi, and President Yeltsin came to a head when Yeltsin dissolved parliament on September 21. As the world looked on, the rebels barricaded themselves in the White House parliament building, where they installed Rutskoi as their new president. Barricades were erected on Moscow's main street. In the afternoon of October 4 the rebels, some of them injured, began evacuating the building. Storm troops reclaiming the White House for Yeltsin found more than 40 bodies.
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