Galina Starovoitova, a top aide to Boris Yeltsin, has reason to fear a second coup. While visiting Edinburgh last month, she had a chance encounter with Alexander Nevzorov the ultra-nationalist Soviet TV journalist. The Yeltsin staffer says that Nevzorov, spewed his contempt for the bumblers who conducted their inept coup in an alcoholic haze. "Next time," Starovoitova says he told her, "we won't fail. We'll arrest the opposition before announcing that we have taken over. You will be one of those we will arrest."
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