Video Footage of Tear Gas Incident

Live and direct on, where else? YouTube. This footage was filmed at the November 7th demonstrations in front of the Jogorku Kenesh (Parliament), right across the street from my office at the American University. I was on the western side of the square, away from the action at the time, but as I said earlier, the flash grenades were no less shocking. Some of this footage was seen on the NTS channel's "Bez Kommentaree" or "Without Commentary" segments during the demonstrations. NTS is an independent russian language channel, essentially a re-translation of a popular Moscow channel, only available to cable subscribers in the north of the country. People in the rest of the country had little idea of what was really going on because they only have access to the government channel, which of course showed very different footage during the demonstrations, only favorable stuff of the Bakiev administration. NTS was shut down at various points during the demonstration, due to 'mysterious' circumstances. Independent stations here have a habit of suffering from mysterious break-ins and vandalism from hooded men. Anyway, on to the show....