Russia, October 1993. Twenty years later, evaluating the crisis

On September 21, 1993, president Boris Yeltsin issued an ukase (decree) by which the duties of the Congress of the People's Deputies and the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation were suspended. Presented by some as a way out of a conflict pitting the President against the Parliament that had been going on for several months, decried by others as a coup, the decree led to a 14-day crisis which saw political conflict fall into violent confrontation.