The Russian Revolution of ’90-91 continues: President Leonid M. Kravchuk, of the former Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine; Chairman Stanislav S. Shushkevich, of the former Soviet Socialist Republic of Belarus; and President Boris Yeltsin, of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, sign the Belavezha Accords, dissolving the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States.
[updated 10/4/2025]
Subsequent Events:
12/18/1991 12/21/1991 4/3/2008
References:
CHRONOLOGY-Communism’s fall around eastern Europe – Reuters
www.reuters.com/article/idUSL10690064
Modern history of Ukraine – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_history_of_Ukraine