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2 days ago · On 24 December 1991, the Russian SFSR – now renamed the Russian Federation – with the concurrence of the other republics of the Commonwealth of Independent States, informed the United Nations that it would inherit the Soviet Union's membership in the UN – including the Soviet Union's permanent seat on the United Nations ...
- 19-22 August 1991 (4 days)
- Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
3 days ago · Soviet Union (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; U.S.S.R.), former northern Eurasian empire (1917/22–1991) stretching from the Baltic and Black seas to the Pacific Ocean and, in its final years, consisting of 15 Soviet Socialist Republics.
1 day ago · Following the Russian Civil War, the Russian SFSR established the Soviet Union with three other Soviet republics, within which it was the largest and principal constituent. At the expense of millions of lives , the Soviet Union underwent rapid industrialisation in the 1930s and later played a decisive role for the Allies in World War II by leading large-scale efforts on the Eastern Front .
2 days ago · The Soviet Union was formed in 1922 by a treaty between the Soviet republics of Byelorussia, Russian SFSR (RSFSR), Transcaucasian Federation, and Ukraine, by which they became its constituent republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Soviet Union).
Jun 21, 2024 · the Russian SFSR is proclaimed a sovereign state in accordance with a declaration adopted by the Congress of People's Deputies (Sʺezd narodnyh deputatov | Съезд народных депутатов) of the Russian SFSR on 12 Jun 1990 in Moscow (RSFSR First Congress of People's Deputies 1990, 4:251-252; (RSFSR Supreme Council ...
4 days ago · Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991.
Jun 11, 2024 · Today he has been targeting the Soviet legacy both by attacking late-Soviet-era cultural figures and by firing missiles on Soviet infrastructure in Ukraine. The Putin regime certainly has similarities to the Soviet regime, but no more so than to other totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century.
