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It’s been 33 years now since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 into 15 separate countries. And what a ride it’s been. The West has reaped the fruits of the USSR’s loss, expanding NATO to ...
But when the 15 Soviet republics seized on the same freedoms to demand their independence, Gorbachev was powerless to prevent the collapse of the Union in 1991, ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin is to miss the funeral of the last Soviet leader, ... helped to trigger nationalist movements within the 15 Soviet republics that he was powerless to quell. ...
Nikolai I. Ryzhkov, a premier of the Soviet Union who in 1990 took the brunt of the blame for economic chaos that engulfed the last years of Communist rule, leading to the nation’s political ...
Ukraine had the second-largest population and economy of the 15 Soviet republics. 1994 ... It is the first time an incumbent has been defeated in a presidential election in a former Soviet republic.