Question
According to a BBC journalist, clips of this musical work were interspersed with a man awkwardly reading announcements from the State Committee on the State of Emergency. For 10 points each:
[10h] While the hardline Gang of Eight attempted to seize power, what musical work was broadcast on loop on state television?
ANSWER: Swan Lake [or Lebedínoje ózero]
[10e] During the August Coup, the Gang of Eight arrested this politician, who starred in a famous Pizza Hut commercial. This politician was the last leader of the USSR.
ANSWER: Mikhail Gorbachev [or Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev]
[10m] Boris Yeltsin personally thanked this station for its coverage of the 1991 coup. Eastern Bloc citizens could tune in to Voice of America and this station if they bypassed jamming with short-wave equipment from the black market.
ANSWER: Radio Free Europe [or Radio Liberty; accept RFE or RL]
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