en.rian.ru Twenty years ago, on August 19-22, 1991, an attempted coup d'etat occurred in the Soviet Union to overthrow President Mikhail Gorbachev and change the...
Russia on Friday marks two decades since the failed 1991 coup by Soviet conservatives against perestroika leader Mikhail Gorbachev which ended up hastening the collapse...
Twenty years since an attempted coup to remove Mikhail Gorbachev as president of the Soviet Union. The August 1991 coup attempt failed, and would help...
When hard-line communist officials seized control of the Soviet government 20 years ago today, the fates of the USSR's 15 republics were on the line....
RU31, 1991, press conference of the State Committee of the state of emergency, Moscow, August 19, 1991, conference room, presentation of those involved in the...
On August 19th 1991, the Soviet people woke to news of an attempt to overthrow President Mikhail Gorbachev, the architect of "glasnost" and "perestroika". The...