Moscow, December 25, 1991

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27 Chernyaev, 1991, diary entry for December 18, 1991.

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28 Ibid., diary entry for December 22, 1991.

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29 Yakovlev, Sumerki, diary entry for December 22, 1991.

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1 Interview with Grachev, October 2009; Grachev, Final Days, 188-189.

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2 Interview with Liu, January 2010.

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3 Interview with Caudill, September 2009.

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4 Interview with Johnson, September 2009.

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1 Yakovlev, Sumerki, diary entry for December 23, 1991. Yakovlev provides a detailed account of the meeting. Also Shulgan, The Soviet Ambassador, 294-298.

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2 Interview with Grachev, October 2009.

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3 Interview with Koppel, October 2009.

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4 Gorbachev, Memoirs, 866.

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5 Shakhnazarov, Tsena Svobody, 294.

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6 Yeltsin, The Struggle for Russia, 311-316.

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7 Dobbs, Down with Big Brother, 310-314.

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8 Gorbachev, Memoirs, 621.

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9 Cienciala, Lebedeva, and Materski, Katyn, 254-255.