World Marks 20th Anniversary Of Dissolution Of Soviet Union

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the formal dissolution of the Soviet Union after nearly 70 years. On December 8, 1991, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus — Boris Yeltsin, Leonid Kravchuk, and Stanislav Shushkevich — met in the Belavezha Forest in Belarus and declared that the Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics had “ceased […]