The elections to the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR, the first elections to the highest body of state authority of the Soviet Union that gave people the right to vote between several candidates for the first time, March 1989. The meeting at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, which took place to nominate candidates. Foreground left: Georgy Arbatov, Member of the Academy and Director of the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Right: Yevgeny Primakov, Member of the Academy and Director of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (now Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences).
- Categories: Human Interest, Politics, Science & Technology
- Location: Russia
- Event date: 15.03.1989
- Date published: 30.04.2021
- Author: Yuryi Abramochkin
- Credit: Sputnik
- Original: 89-2862, 35 mm film
- Media: JPEG, 5325x3543px, 4.9Mb