Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "1993 Russian constitutional crisis" in English language version.
Hence their wholehearted support for Yeltsin in his September–October 1993 confrontation with the Left-nationalist radical supporters of the Supreme Soviet. The Czech President Václav Havel said October 4 that the clashes in Moscow were not simply "a power struggle, but rather a fight between democracy and totalitarianism." In a joint statement Presidents Lennart Meri of Estonia, Guntis Ulmanis of Latvia, and Algirdas Brazauskas of Lithuania called the struggle in Moscow "a contest between a democratically elected President and antidemocratic power structures." Their Moldovan counterpart, Mircea Snegur, called the Supreme Soviet supporters "Communist, imperialist forces who want to turn Russia into a concentration camp". "In my thoughts I am on the barricades with the defenders of Russian democracy, as I was next to them in August 1991," Eduard Shevardnadze said in a message to the Kremlin on the late afternoon of October 3, 1993, when the outcome looked quite grim for Yeltsin. "Deeply concerned about the events in Moscow, I am again expressing my resolute support for President Yeltsin and his allies."
Unlike Chisinau, the leaders of the Transnistrian separatists supported almost openly the Rutskoy-Khasbulatov camp, sending paramilitaries from Transnistria to the Russian capital to defend the White House. On October 4, the Moldovan ambassador in Moscow gave an interview for the Russian press, in which he warned about the presence of representatives of paramilitary detachments of the Transnistrian separatists among the defenders of the White House.
