On 19 January 2009 human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova were shot dead on Moscow's Prechistenka Street. An annual march in memory of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova is…
Photo: Emerging Europe On 13 January 1991 14 died and hundreds were injured in Vilnius when Soviet troops attempted to crush the Lithuanian independence movement. Today, 13 January is Freedom…
Scene of 8 January 1977 Moscow Metro bombing. Wikipedia The 1977 Moscow bombings were a series of three terrorist bombings in Moscow on 8 January 1977. The attacks killed seven people and seriously injured 37 others.…
Bukovsky at the Sakharov Congress in Amsterdam, 21 May 1987. Wikipedia On 5 January 1972 the trial of Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky took place in the Lyublino district court of Moscow. V.K. Bukovsky was charged with having…
The requisition of grains from wealthy peasants (kulaks) during the forced collectivization in Timashyovsky District, Kuban, Soviet Union. 1933. Wikipedia On 5 January 1930 a decree was issued by the Central Committee entitled 'On the…
Photo source: Wikipedia On 31 December 1999 Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007) resigned as President of the Russian Federation. He had first been elected to that post on 10 July 1991. He…
Map source: Wikipedia On 31 December 1994 Russian forces attacked Grozny, the capital of Chechnya. In the assault on the city thousands of civilians died from air raids and military…
Flag of the Soviet Union, 1955-91 On 30 December 1922 the Soviet Union was founded. On 28 December 1922 a conference of plenipotentiary delegations from the Russian SFSR, the Transcaucasian SFSR, the Ukrainian…
Flag of the Soviet Union 1955-91 On 26 December 1991 the USSR ceased to exist. The Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR adopted a declaration…
The Soviet flag was lowered from the Kremlin and replaced with the flag of Russia on 25 December 1991, a day before the USSR was officially dissolved. Source: Wikipedia 25 December 1991 – Russian Soviet Federative…