Yeltsin in show of force

1993 - President Boris Yeltsin sealed off Russia’s parliament with razor wire and ordered its guards to hand over their guns, stepping up pressure on the assembly to end its week-old resistance to his emergency rule. Both Yeltsin’s supporters and the 100 or so rebel deputies cornered inside the parliament ruled out dialogue. But two senior parliamentarians held talks with Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin to try to break the impasse.