September 30th 1993 in the Hotel Ukraine*, Moscow while the Russian white-house was under siege during the "Constitutional Crisis of 1993" [ Ссылка ].
I was looking nervous before presenting at a Telecom seminar for Texas Instruments. We had been moved from the City Hall for safety where the main ballroom was hurriedly reconfigured to be our conference venue. Soldiers were everywhere as The Hotel Ukraine was serving as a makeshift mustering station for the troops. There was a nervous atmosphere and on October 4th the troops stormed the Russian White House. There's a snippet of the conference here: [ Ссылка ]
*now called Radisson Collection Hotel, Moscow

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