Yeltsin's Decree

[Lawrence K. Kolodney]

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/* Written 6:49 pm Aug 19, 1991 by NorthWest in cdp:northwest.news */
/* ---------- "Decree of Russian President Eltsin" ---------- */

P R E S I D E N T
O F T H E R U S S I A N R E P U B L I C

D E C R E E

In connection with actions by a group of persons, who call
themselves as the state committee on the extraordinary situation,
I order:
1. Establishing the committee must be considered
anticonstitutional, and the actions by its organizers must be
considered a revolution, which, at the same time, is a state
crime.
2. All resolutions, which are issued by the name of so-
called committee on the extraordinary situation, must be
considered illegal and having no use in the territory of the
Russian republic. The lawful power in the person of the
President, the Supreme Soviet and the chairman at the Ministers'
Council, all state and local bodies of the power and
administration of the Russian republic is in force in the
territory of the Russian republic.
3. Actions by officials, who execute resolutions by the
mentioned committee, are under the criminal code of the Russian
republic and to be prosecuted by the law.
The present decree is put in force since the moment of
signing.

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