RUSSIAN WOMAN WIPES TEARS AS SHE STAND AT TOMBSTONES OF THOSE PERISHED
RESISTING THE 1991 COUP ATTEMPT IN MOSCOW.


A Russian woman wipes tears as she stands at tombstones of those
perished resisting the 1991 coup attempt at Moscow's Vagankovskoye
cemetery, August 21, 2001. The abortive coup by a group of the
Communist hardliners imprisoned Mikhail Gorbachev in his Black Sea
villa trying to block liberal reforms in the Soviet Union.