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On 17 December, an estimated 30,000 attended a public meeting organized in Kyiv by Rukh in memory of Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov, who died on 14 December. On 26 December, the Supreme Soviet of Ukrainian SSR adopted a law designating Christmas, Easter, and the Feast of the Holy Trinity official holidays. [49]
December 8, 1991 – Treaty termination agreed by three of the four founding republics as the fourth founding member, the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, was dissolved back in 1936. December 21, 1991 – Another declaration is signed with the rest of the former Union (except Georgia and the Baltic states), terminating the ...
Terminator 2: Judgment Day broke Beverly Hills Cop II ' s record ($26.3 million) for highest weekend debut for a R-rated film and Coming to America ' s record ($21.4 million) for the highest Fourth of July weekend debut. It had the highest weekend debut of 1991.
Оn 25 December Gorbachev announced his resignation from the post of President of the USSR in connection with the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States. [13] Accordingly, the union government ceased to exist. [14] The next day, 26 December 1991 the Soviet Union was formally dissolved by the Council of Republics.
After the dissolution of the USSR on 26 December 1991, all former Soviet Union property was automatically transferred to Russian ownership. [26] On 2 April 1992, Russia declared itself the sole legal successor to all debts of the former USSR and pledged to repay them in full, while receiving rights to all financial and material assets of the USSR.
19 December 1991: The Addams Family: £2,017,379 [53] 52: 26 December 1991: £1,464,784 [54] [55] Highest-grossing films. Highest-grossing films of 1991 [56] Rank Title
The Soviet Union ends on 26 December 1991, and in his Christmas Day address Bush announces the Cold War is over. The cost of the Cold War is considered in retrospect. Interviewees include Mircea Dinescu, Alexander Rutskoy and Condoleezza Rice. The pre-credits scene features Bush and Gorbachev explaining how uncertain the world had suddenly become.
December 26 is the 360th day of the year ... 1991 – Trevor Siemian, American football player [57] 1992 – Cecilia Costa Melgar, Chilean tennis player [58]