A watan Agusta 1993, wani mai sharhi ya yi tunani game da halin da ake ciki kamar haka: "Shugaban ya ba da umarni kamar dai babu Babban Soviet, kuma Babban Soviet ya dakatar da umarni kamar dai babu Shugaba". (Izvestiya, 13 ga Agusta, 1993).Shugaban ya kaddamar da hare-haren a ranar 1 ga Satumba lokacin da ya yi kokarin dakatar da Mataimakin Shugaban Rutskoy, babban abokin hamayya. Rutskoy, wanda aka zaba a kan tikitin guda kamar Yeltsin a 1991, shi ne magajin shugaban kasa. Wani mai magana da yawun shugaban kasa ya ce an dakatar da shi saboda "zarge-zargen cin hanci da rashawa". A ranar 3 ga Satumba, Babban Soviet ya ƙi dakatar da Yeltsin na Rutskoy kuma ya koma ga Kotun Tsarin Mulki. Tambaya: Wanene aka dakatar da shi a ranar 3 ga Satumba?
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