- Title: RUSSIA: RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT SURVIVES NO-CONFIDENCE VOTE
- Date: 1st July 1995
- Summary: MOSCOW (JULY 1) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. SLV EXT. DUMA (LOWER HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT) BUILDING 0.07 2. SLV/SV COMMUNISTS PICKET OUTSIDE THE DUMA, BANNERS (4 SHOTS) 0.27 3. SV DEPUTIES WALKING IN 0.31 4. SV RUSSIAN PRIME MINISTER VIKTOR CHERNOMYRDIN AND VICE PREMIER OLEG SOSKOVETS ENTER CHAMBER 0.39 5. GV DUMA CHAMBER 0.43 6. SV ULTRANATIONALIST LEADER VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY 0.47 7. SV GRIGORY YAVLINSKY, HEAD OF YABLOKO PARTY 0.53 8. SV DEMOCRATIC PARTY DEPUTY SERGEI GLAZEV (ONE OF NO-CONFIDENCE VOTE INITIATORS) 0.57 9. SV DUMA SPEAKER IVAN RYBKIN 1.02 10. MCU SCREEN SHOWING QUORUM 1.07 11. SV YAVLINSKY SAYING HIS PARTY PROPOSES POSTPONING VOTE UNTIL RUSSIAN PRESIDENT BORIS YELTSIN HAS MADE ALL FINAL DECISIONS IN AFTERMATH OF BUDENNOVSK EVENTS (RUSSIAN) 1.16 12. SV CUTAWAY TO CHAMBER 1.17 13. SV COMMUNIST PARTY HEAD GENNADY ZYUGANOV SAYING HIS PARTY HAS NEVER HAD FAITH IN THE COURSE AND COMPOSITION OF THE GOVERNMENT BECAUSE ITS COURSE IS DESTRUCTIVE AND ECONOMIC POLICY DOES NOT SUIT RUSSIA AND THAT MINISTERS ARE HOSTAGES OF THE COURSE OF THE GOVERNMENT (RUSSIAN) 1.38 14. SV CHERNOMYRDIN AND SOSKOVETS 1.41 15. SV ZHIRINOVSKY ASKING DEPUTIES TO VOTE FOR NO-CONFIDENCE MOTION AND NOT TO WORRY BECAUSE THEY (POINTS AT CHERNOMYRDIN) WILL NOT DISSOLVE DUMA BECAUSE IT IS NOT IN THEIR INTERESTS (RUSSIAN) 1.52 16. SV CHERNOMYRDIN 1.56 17. SV ZHIRINOVSKY SPEAKING AT PODIUM UNTIL MICROPHONE IS TURNED OFF 2.00 18. GV DEPUTIES VOTE 2.04 19. MCU PLAY BOARD SHOWING FAILURE OF MOTION (NOTE: 189 SHOWN PRO MOTION BECAUSE 4 DEPUTIES VOTED BY RAISING HANDS; TOTAL IS 193 PRO) 2.10 20. SV CHERNOMYRDIN SPEAKING, SAYING DUMA HAS TAKEN STEPS TOWARD RAPPROCHEMENT WITH GOVERNMENT (RUSSIAN) 2.22 21. SLV DEPUTIES IN LOBBY AFTER VOTE 2.25 22. SV ZYUGANOV SAYING GOVERNMENT HAS MADE STEPS IN RIGHT DIRECTION BUT THERE HAS BEEN NO MAJOR CHANGE IN POLICY (RUSSIAN) 2.32 23. SV YAVLINSKY SAYING RESIGNATION OF MINISTERS AND DUMA VOTE WILL ALLOW IMPROVEMENT OF SITUATION IN CHECHNYA AND IN GENERAL (RUSSIAN)/PEOPLE IN LOBBY (2 SHOTS) 2.44 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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- Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
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- Country: Russia
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- Story Text: The Russian government survived a no-confidence vote by the lower house of parliament on Saturday (July 1), averting a showdown in which President Boris Yeltsin would have been forced to dismiss the cabinet or dissolve the legislature.
Some 193 deputies supported the no-confidence motion, short of the 226 required for the vote to pass. Some 117 deputies voted against the motion and 48 abstained in the vote, shown live on television.
The vote was demanded after a bloody raid by Chechen rebels last month on the southern Russian town of Budennovsk.
The Duma had voted no confidence in the government in a non-binding vote on June 21, but deputies were clearly anxious to ensure parliament was not dissolved after the second, binding vote.
Yeltsin on Friday (June 29) sacked Interior Minister Viktor Yerin, Nationalities Minister Nikolai Yegorov, Federal Security Service chief Sergei Stepashin and Yevgeny Kuznetsov, governor of Stavropol region which includes Budennovsk.
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