Description

The Saint Petersburg “New Artists” stage a meeting of the committee “anti-state of emergency” on their “Pirate Television,” declaring their support of Yeltsin against the group of communist hardliners who led the coup d’etat against Gorbachev on August 19, 1991.

Era

Perestroika

Date

1991

Geography: Place Of Origin

Saint Petersburg

Associated People

Novikov, Timur, Mamyshev, Vladislav (Vlad), Bugaev, Sergei (Afrika), Khlobystin, Andrei, Yeltsin, Boris, and Gorbachev, Mikhail

Geography: Place Of Focus

Saint Petersburg

Bibliographic Reference

“Zasedanie komiteta anti-ChP.” Piratskoe TV. August 19, 1991. YouTube: AntiGKCP/ АнтиГКЧП / Тимур Новиков и Новые художники