Russian President Boris Yeltsin visits Arzamas-16 (now Sarov). Local residents greet President Boris Yeltsin.28.02.1992#6394680
People's Deputy of the USSR Alexei Yemelyanov, a member of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the USSR and an agrarian economist, comments on the work of the First Session of the Supreme Soviet of USSR of the New Convocation during his conversation with journalists.22.10.1991#8232882
Mikhail Kozhokin, junior editor of the USA: Economy, Politics, Ideology magazine, senior research fellow of the USSR Academy of Sciences' Institute of the United States of America and Canada.20.01.1991#8225968
The congress of the Republican Party of Russia – People's Freedom Party (RPR – PARNAS) in Moscow. From left: co-chairman of the Coordinating Council of RPR – PARNAS Vyacheslav Shostakovsky and Greek publisher Janis Jannikos during their meeting.19.11.1990#8219899
The congress of the Republican Party of Russia – People's Freedom Party (RPR – PARNAS) in Moscow. From right: co-chairman of the Coordinating Council of RPR – PARNAS Vyacheslav Shostakovsky and Greek publisher Janis Jannikos have a conversation.19.11.1990#8219898
Left: Director of the State Hermitage Boris Piotrovsky, Soviet and Russian archaeologist, doctor of historical sciences Vadim Masson with an Indian colleague. Turkmen SSR.17.09.1990#8366601
A seminar, 1,000 Days of Intifada, at Novosti Information Agency (currently Rossiya Segodnya International Media Group). Vitaly Naumkin, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, speaks at the event.17.09.1990#8373032
The 4th session of the USSR Supreme Soviet at the Grand Kremlin Palace. September 10-17, 1990. From left: Stanislav Shatalin, member of the State Commission on Economic Reform, Head of the Working Group on Developing the Program on Transition to Market Economy (500 Days Program), member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev.10.09.1990#8211195
The 4th session of the USSR Supreme Soviet at the Grand Kremlin Palace. September 10-17, 1990. Stanislav Shatalin, member of the State Commission on Economic Reform, Head of the Working Group on Developing the Program on Transition to Market Economy (500 Days Program), member of the USSR Academy of Sciences.10.09.1990#8211192
The 4th session of the USSR Supreme Soviet at the Grand Kremlin Palace. September 10-17, 1990. Stanislav Shatalin, member of the State Commission on Economic Reform, Head of the Working Group on Developing the Program on Transition to Market Economy (500 Days Program), member of the USSR Academy of Sciences.10.09.1990#8211097
A roundtable discussion, Results of the 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Political Experts Speaking. Vladimir Petukhov, Candidate of Philosophy and staff member of the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, takes part in the event.15.07.1990#8340365
A roundtable discussion, Results of the 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Political Experts Speaking. Doctor of Philosophy Boris Slavin takes part in the event.15.07.1990#8340364
A roundtable discussion, Results of the 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Political Experts Speaking. Eduard Andreyev, Doctor of Philosophy and chief research associate at the Institute for Social and Political Research of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (currently of Russia), takes part in the event.15.07.1990#8340983
Participants in a roundtable discussion, Results of the 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Political Experts Speaking, from left: Vladimir Petukhov, Candidate of Philosophy and staff member of the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Boris Slavin, Doctor of Philosophy and staff member of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union's Communist Party, and Eduard Andreyev, Doctor of Philosophy and chief research associate at the Institute for Social and Political Research of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.15.07.1990#8340980
The 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the USSR at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses (now State Kremlin Palace), July 2-13, 1990. First Secretary of the Leningrad Region's Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR, Boris Gidaspov, during a session.02.07.1990#8317971
July 2-13, 1990. The 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, now the State Kremlin Palace. Photo: Alexander Yakovlev, Member of the Politiburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU, DSc (History), completes his speech.02.07.1990#8318437
A news conference with representatives of business circles of Arab countries at Novosti Press Agency, now Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency. Soviet and Russian historian-Orientalist, expert on Islam, political analyst, professor V. Naumkin, DSc (History), takes the floor.14.06.1990#8407233
The statutory meeting of the Soviet Arab Center in Moscow. Soviet historian-Orientalist Leonid Medvedko, DSc (History), a research associate with the Institute of African Studies of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, takes the floor.14.06.1990#8407230
Japanese monk D.Tarasava, second left, and Yevgeny Velikhov, Vice President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Hero of Socialist Labor and academician, second right, after signing a protocol of cooperation.13.06.1990#8404046
Alexander Yakovlev, Soviet Americanist and Member of the Presidential Council of the Soviet Union.01.06.1990#8325789
Anatoly Gromyko, Director of the Institute for African Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (now Russian Academy of Sciences) and Corresponding Member of the Academy, speaks to open the 1990 African Readings which took place at the institute in Moscow in May 1990.17.05.1990#8379172
Participants attend the African Readings at the Institute for African Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (now Russian Academy of Sciences), Moscow, May 1990.17.05.1990#8373022
Anatoly Gromyko, Director of the Institute for African Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (now Russian Academy of Sciences) and Corresponding Member of the Academy, speaks to open the 1990 African Readings which took place at the Institute in Moscow in May 1990.17.05.1990#8373021
A discussion takes place during the African Readings at the Institute for African Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (now Russian Academy of Sciences), Moscow, May 1990.17.05.1990#8373020
A roundtable at Novosti Press Agency, Political Dynamics in the Middle East: Problems and Opinions. Vitaly Naumkin, participant in the discussion, historian, Orientalist, political expert, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences.01.05.1990#8454270
A roundtable discussion, Soviet-Cuban Economic Relations, at Novosti Press Agency (now Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency). A. Bekarevich and G. Levykina, staff members of the Institute of Latin American Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (now Russian Academy of Sciences).17.03.1990#6663231
A roundtable discussion, Soviet-Cuban Economic Relations, at Novosti Press Agency (now Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency). Gennady Zuikov, Cand.Sc. (Economics), staff member at the Institute of Economics of the World Socialist System of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now Department of International Economic and Political Studies of the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences).17.03.1990#6663226
A round table discussion "Eastern Europe and the developing countries: Economic relations" at the Novosti New Agency (currently MIA Rossiya Segodnya). L. Zevin, a researcher with the Institute of the Socialist System Economy of the USSR Academy of Sciences (currently Department of International Economic and Political Studies, a branch of the Institute of the Economy of the Russian Academy of Sciences).26.01.1990#6651904
A round table discussion "Eastern Europe and the developing countries: Economic relations" at the Novosti New Agency (currently MIA Rossiya Segodnya).26.01.1990#6651903
A round table discussion "Eastern Europe and the developing countries: Economic relations" at the Novosti New Agency (currently MIA Rossiya Segodnya). N. Ushakova, a researcher with the Institute of the Socialist System Economy of the USSR Academy of Sciences (currently Department of International Economic and Political Studies, a branch of the Institute of the Economy of the Russian Academy of Sciences).26.01.1990#6651902
A round table discussion "Eastern Europe and the developing countries: Economic relations" at the Novosti New Agency (currently MIA Rossiya Segodnya). M.Strepetova, a researcher with the Institute of the Socialist System Economy of the USSR Academy of Sciences (currently Department of International Economic and Political Studies, a branch of the Institute of the Economy of the Russian Academy of Sciences).26.01.1990#6651901
Metropolitan Paulos Gar Gregorios of Delhi Diocese of the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church, a leader of the World Council of Churches, on his visit to Moscow. A meeting with informal activist Boris Kagarlitsky, a member of the Social Initiative Club.19.01.1990#6651224
Ivan Frolov, Soviet scholar, philosopher and member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, secretary of the USSR Communist Party and Editor-in-Chief of the Pravda newspaper.01.01.1990#8423373
The second Congress of USSR People's Deputies (December 12-24, 1989), where the radical minority headed by Boris Yeltsin after the death of Andrei Sakharov demanded the abolition of Article 6 of the USSR Constitution, which stated that "the USSR Communist Party is the leading and guiding force" in the state. In turn, the conservative majority pointed to the destabilizing disintegration processes in the USSR and, consequently, the need to strengthen the powers of the center (the Soyuz group). Center: Vadim Medvedev, Soviet scientist and economist, Ph.D. in Economics, member of the USSR Communist Party Executive Committee Politburo, Kremlin Palace of Congresses (now the State Kremlin Palace).20.12.1989#6633994
The 2nd Congress of USSR People's Deputies (December 12-24, 1989). Alexander Yakovlev, Member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and one of the main architects of the perestroika drive, speaks.12.12.1989#6645383
Nikolai Petrakov, Soviet and Russian economist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director of the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now Russian Academy of Sciences). In 1989, he was elected USSR People's Deputy and was Economic Assistant to the Secretary-General of the USSR Communist Party.08.12.1989#6630471
Colonel General Dmitry Volgogonov, historian, doctor of history and philosophy, political scientist and politician, speaks at the Novosti Press Agency (now Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency) during a presentation of his book, Triumph and Tragedy: The Political Portrait of Joseph Stalin.05.12.1989#6625931
APN Publishing Department Director Alexei Pushkov, left, at a presentation of Joseph Stalin's Political Portrait: Triumph and Tragedy, a book by Dmitry Volkogonov, Soviet historian, doctor of history and philosophy, colonel-general, Director of the Military History Institute of the USSR Defense Ministry, second left, at the Novosti Press Agency (now Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency).05.12.1989#6639006
APN Publishing Department Director Alexei Pushkov at a presentation of Joseph Stalin's Political Portrait: Triumph and Tragedy, a book by Dmitry Volkogonov, Soviet historian, doctor of history and philosophy, colonel-general, Director of the Military History Institute of the USSR Defense Ministry, at the Novosti Press Agency (now Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency).05.12.1989#6639003
Right: Dmitry Volkogonov, Soviet historian, doctor of history and philosophy, colonel-general, Director of the Military History Institute of the USSR Defense Ministry, speaks at the Novosti Press Agency (now Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency) during a presentation of his book Joseph Stalin's Political Portrait: Triumph and Tragedy. Left: APN Publishing Department Director Alexei Pushkov.05.12.1989#6638999
Chairman of the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Rafik Nishanov presents the Order of Friendship to Cuban public and political figure and President of the Association for Cuban-Soviet Friendship, Zoilo Marinello Vidaurreta.25.10.1989#6558224
Zoilo E. Marinello Vidaurreta, Cuban public and political figure and president of the Association for the Cuban-Soviet Friendship, during the ceremony to award him with the Order of People's Friendship at the Moscow Kremlin.25.10.1989#6558221
Boris Rakitsky, Soviet and Russian scientist-economist, PhD in Economics, Professor of the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University, head of the laboratory of the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences.19.10.1989#6556149
Professor Leonid Istyagin, leading researcher at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences).18.10.1989#8132524
Oleg Arin (birth name - Rafik Aliev), Director of the Institute of Economic and International Problems of Ocean Development of the Far Eastern Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, PhD in History. He emigrated to Canada in 1992 and changed his name to Alex Battler, currently residing in the United States as an independent researcher.18.10.1989#6555082
Oleg Arin (birth name - Rafik Aliev), Director of the Institute of Economic and International Problems of Ocean Development of the Far Eastern Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, PhD in History. He emigrated to Canada in 1992 and changed his name to Alex Battler, currently residing in the United States as an independent researcher.18.10.1989#6555079
Sergei Kolesnikov, Ph. D (HIstory), Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Communist magazine.16.10.1989#6551992
Yelena Kotova, deputy of the Moscow Council representing the Democratic Russia movement, Chair of the Permanent Commission on Economic Policy and Entrepreneurship.01.10.1989#8219703
Major General Nikolai Staskov, Head of the 242nd District Center for Training Junior Specialists of the Soviet Airborne Force.01.09.1989#8211190
The cover page of a book from the anthology by Maria Vernadskaya (1862, St. Petersburg), the first Russian female political economist.03.08.1989#6616572
Left: Vladimir Kudryavtsev, Soviet legal scholar, Vice President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, during a meeting with a delegation of the senior officials of the Permanent Conference of Political Parties of Latin America and the Caribbean (COPPPAL).03.08.1989#6543885
Robert Yengibaryan, Soviet scientist, doctor of legal sciences, Head of the Ideological Department of the Communist Central Committee.31.05.1989#5929171
First Conference of USSR People's Deputies at the Kremlin Congress Palace, May 25-June 9, 1989. Anatoly Sobchak, People's Deputy and Head of Economic Law at the Leningrad State University and member of the USSR Supreme Soviet Commission on Legislation, Legality and Public Order.25.05.1989#6628741
Alexander Tsipko, Ph.D., political scientist and consultant of the Department of Socialist Countries at the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party.20.04.1989#6623824
Alexander Tsipko, Ph.D., political scientist and consultant of the Department of Socialist Countries at the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party.20.04.1989#6623819
Viktor Volsky, Director of the Latin America Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now Latin America Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences), professor and international economy expert, before his speech during a discussion on problems of Latin America.13.04.1989#6644812
Members of a Norwegian military delegation visit the Soviet Union. Igor Kasatonov, First Deputy Commander of the Soviet Northern Fleet, speaks with Admiral Ule Thomesen, Commander of the North Norwegian Naval Force, and Norway's Military Attache to the USSR E. Thorgenen.20.03.1989#6641782
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).15.03.1989#6532152
