The dissolution of the Soviet Union took place with the failed coup against Gorbachev in August 1991 and was executed at a meeting between Russia’s future president Yeltsin, Ukraine’s president Kravchuk and Belarus’ president Shushkevich in the Belavejsky Forest on December 8, 1991. On December 25, 1991, the Soviet Read more…
Over the last few years, President Vladimir Putin's government has carried out an increasingly relentless crackdown on dissent at home that has seen most independent media shut down or exiled, opposition political movements declared "extremist," and tens of thousands of Russians fleeing the country from fear of prosecution and general Read more…