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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 ...
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.
December 26 is the 360th day of the year ... 1991 – Trevor Siemian, American football player [57] 1992 – Cecilia Costa Melgar, Chilean tennis player [58]
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.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 December 2024. 1991 January February March April May June July August September October November December Clockwise, from top left: A destroyed Serbian T-55 tank during the Croatian War of Independence, the beginning of the Yugoslav Wars ; the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, the second ...
The time period of around 1985–1991 marked the final period of the Cold War.It was characterized by systemic reform within the Soviet Union, the easing of geopolitical tensions between the Soviet-led bloc and the United States-led bloc, the collapse of the Soviet Union's influence in Eastern Europe, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The process was caused by a weakening of the Soviet government, which led to disintegration and took place from about 19 January 1990 to 26 December 1991. [ 41 ] [ 42 ] The process was characterized by many of the republics of the Soviet Union declaring their independence and being recognized as sovereign nation-states .