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Our Life | Наше життя August | Серпень 2021 29 On August 19, upon hearing of the coup attempt in Moscow, members of the leadership of Rukh, along with other political leaders, met in the small auditorium of the Writers’ Union of Ukraine on Ordzhonikidze Street in Kyiv. Those in the meeting made the decision to reject the legitimacy of the State Emergency Committee, of the coup leaders, and issued an appeal on August 19 for the people and government of Ukraine to reject this attempted coup, as well. Rukh’s appeal was the first in Ukraine to reject the coup, a risky step since there was no clear indication whether the Soviet military and police forces supported the coup. For the next four days, Rukh would hold twice-daily press conferences in this auditorium to update members of foreign and domestic media about events unfolding. The press services of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and of Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada – the entities that usually provided media with political, and specifically government, information – were not available. 1st row, from left: unidentified; Volodymyr Mulyava; Lev Lukianenko 1st row, across aisle: Oleksandr Yemets 2nd row, from left: unidentified; Volodymyr Yavorivskyy 2nd row, across aisle: Voleslav Heychenko; Dmytro Pavlychko 3rd row, from left: Vitaliy Kononov; Oles Doniy 3rd row, across aisle: Oleksandr Burakovskiy Elected officials gathered in the main cham - ber of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s par - liament building at Hrushevskiy Street 5 in Kyiv, on Saturday, August 24, 1991. The al - most 11-hour extraordinary session began at 9 a.m. Standing at the podium, head of the Verkhovna Rada Leonid Kravchuk with People’s Deputy Larysa Skoryk during the morning discussion. After a hurried effort to gather signatures, the meeting of the ex - traordinary session was confirmed officially late on August 21. The Act of Declaration of the Independence of Ukraine and the accompanying decision to hold a referen - dum December 1, 1991, to confirm the dec - laration by popular vote were accepted in the early evening of August 24 by an over - whelming majority vote of the legislators present. WŚŽƚŽ͗ /ƌĞŶĞ :ĂƌŽƐĞǁŝĐŚ
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