This was not the local six-monthly training camps that such men usually attended and rumours of the continuing unrest and violence in Azerbaijan alarmed people whose husbands and fathers had now been sent there ( see Baku pogrom ) . The director of the factory where Valentina was working gave her and her team access to his telex and they sent urgent messages to Gorbachev , Yeltsin and other decision-makers in the Soviet and RSFSR governments
Baku pogrom
Baku pogrom
Valentina Cherevatenko