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In the 2020s, Swan Lake became a symbol of protest in Russia. The symbolism dates to the failed Soviet coup of 1991. On August 19 of that year, as tanks rolled into Moscow, state television aired the entire ballet on loop. Communist hardliners then announced that they had seized control of the country from Mikhail Gorbachev, whom they had arrested.
The following lists events that happened during 1991 in the Soviet Union and Russia.. The Soviet Union had a transitional government in 1991, during the fall of communism.Every republic in the union had growing nationalism until Christmas of 1991 when Mikhail Gorbachev, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and President of the Soviet Union, abandoned the Union at ...
Sergey Medvedev's 2001 Channel One film Swan Lake, commissioned by the State Committee on the State of Emergency. [141] Yeltsin: Three Days in August (Ельцин. Три дня в августе) is a 2011 Russian film that dramatizes the coup.
1991 in Russia (9 C, 9 P) S. 1991 in Soviet sport (8 C, 5 P) T. 1991 in Tajikistan (3 C, 2 P) 1991 in Turkmenistan (2 C, 1 P) U. 1991 in Ukraine (5 C, 7 P)
Russia and the United States agreed then to guarantee Kyiv’s security in exchange for Ukraine’s government giving up Soviet-era nuclear weapons that had been stored there before the 1991 ...
The collapse of the Soviet Union, 1985–1991 (Routledge, 2016). Matlock, Jr. Jack F., Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union, Random House, 1995, ISBN 0-679-41376-6; Oberdorfer, Don. From the Cold War to a New Era: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1983–1991 (2nd ed. Johns Hopkins UP ...
Russian scientists conduct autopsy on 44,000-year-old permafrost wolf carcass. June 28, 2024 at 5:42 AM. YAKUTSK, Russia (Reuters) - In Russia's far northeastern Yakutia region, local scientists ...
Russian Civil War: The Czecho-Slovak Legions began its revolt against the Bolshevik government. 28 May: Armenia and Azerbaijan declared their mutual independence. 8 June: Russian Civil War: An anti-Bolshevik government, the Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly, was established in Samara under the protection of the Czecho-Slovak ...