Publisher of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf Viktor Bezverkhy. Cooperator Viktor Bezverkhy detained on suspicion of inciting inter-ethnic discord, gives his first interview after being released in courtroom. The case was dismissed on grounds of lack of corpus delicti.18.11.1993#8807433
The Civil War in Georgia in 1991-1993. Armed conflict between the supporters of ousted president Zviad Gamsakhurdia and government forces. An armed militant at the entry to the city of Poti.07.01.1992#6383278
Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The Russian Interior Ministry withdraws its armed forces from Chechnya. November 1991. A soldier rests before boarding a plane.15.11.1991#6377067
Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The Russian Interior Ministry withdraws its armed forces from Chechnya. November 1991. Russian troops before departure from the Vladikavkaz airport.15.11.1991#6377062
Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The Russian Interior Ministry withdraws its armed forces from Chechnya. November 1991. Loading military equipment on a military plane at an airfield in Vladikavkaz.15.11.1991#6377061
Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The Russian Interior Ministry withdraws its armed forces from Chechnya. November 1991. Russian troops before departure from the Vladikavkaz airport.15.11.1991#6377060
Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The Russian Interior Ministry withdraws its armed forces from Chechnya. November 1991. Russian troops before departure from the Vladikavkaz airport.15.11.1991#6377059
Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The Russian Interior Ministry withdraws its armed forces from Chechnya. November 1991. Russian troops before departure from the Vladikavkaz airport.15.11.1991#6377058
Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The Russian Interior Ministry withdraws its armed forces from Chechnya. November 1991. Russian troops before departure from the Vladikavkaz airport.15.11.1991#6377057
Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The Russian Interior Ministry withdraws its armed forces from Chechnya. November 1991. Vladikavkaz residents discuss the political situation in North Caucasus with the Russian military.15.11.1991#6376141
Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The Russian Interior Ministry withdraws its armed forces from Chechnya. November 1991. Vladikavkaz residents discuss the political situation in North Caucasus with the Russian military.15.11.1991#6376139
Supporters of the Crimean Republic Movement demand holding a Crimea independence referendum outside the Crimean Parliament in Simferopol, Ukrainian SSR.31.10.1991#8601623
Pavel Martyushov, one of the oldest residents of Lugovaya, an old-believers' village in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.01.07.1991#8201200
Events in Vilnius, Lithuania, in February 1991 following the republic's secession from the Soviet Union. Supporters of the country's independence clashed with service personnel of the Soviet Armed Forces and activists of the Committee for the National Salvation of the Lithuanian SSR. Photo: Local residents stage a rally.16.02.1991#8227350
Events in Vilnius, Lithuania, in February 1991 following the republic's secession from the Soviet Union. Supporters of the country's independence clashed with service personnel of the Soviet Armed Forces and activists of the Committee for the National Salvation of the Lithuanian SSR. Photo: The posters of protesters.16.02.1991#8227348
January 11-13, 1991. Clashes in Vilnius after Lithuania's announcement of leaving the USSR, between the supporters of Lithuania's independence, the USSR Armed Forces and the Committee of National Salvation of the Lithuanian SSR. Funeral of the people killed in the clashes outside the television center on June 13.16.01.1991#8225406
January 11-13, 1991. Clashes in Vilnius after Lithuania's announcement of leaving the USSR, between the supporters of Lithuania's independence, the USSR Armed Forces and the Committee of National Salvation of the Lithuanian SSR. City residents light up candles in memory of those killed in the clashes.13.01.1991#8225399
January 11-13, 1991. Clashes in Vilnius after Lithuania's announcement of leaving the USSR, between the supporters of Lithuania's independence, the USSR Armed Forces and the Committee of National Salvation of the Lithuanian SSR.13.01.1991#8225397
January 11-13, 1991. Clashes in Vilnius after Lithuania's announcement of leaving the USSR, between the supporters of Lithuania's independence, the USSR Armed Forces and the Committee of National Salvation of the Lithuanian SSR. Protesters outside the Parliament of Lithuania.12.01.1991#8225404
January 11-13, 1991. Clashes in Vilnius after Lithuania's announcement of leaving the USSR, between the supporters of Lithuania's independence, the USSR Armed Forces and the Committee of National Salvation of the Lithuanian SSR. People killed in the clashes.12.01.1991#8225401
January 11-13, 1991. Clashes in Vilnius after Lithuania's announcement of leaving the USSR, between the supporters of Lithuania's independence, the USSR Armed Forces and the Committee of National Salvation of the Lithuanian SSR. People killed in the clashes.12.01.1991#8225398
January 11-13, 1991. Clashes in Vilnius after Lithuania's announcement of leaving the USSR, between the supporters of Lithuania's independence, the USSR Armed Forces and the Committee of National Salvation of the Lithuanian SSR. Rally outside the House of the Press.11.01.1991#8225407
January 11-13, 1991. Clashes in Vilnius after Lithuania's announcement of leaving the USSR, between the supporters of Lithuania's independence, the USSR Armed Forces and the Committee of National Salvation of the Lithuanian SSR. Airborne troops outside the House of the Press.11.01.1991#8225405
January 11-13, 1991. Clashes in Vilnius after Lithuania's announcement of leaving the USSR, between the supporters of Lithuania's independence, the USSR Armed Forces and the Committee of National Salvation of the Lithuanian SSR. Rally outside the House of the Press.11.01.1991#8225403
January 11-13, 1991. Clashes in Vilnius after Lithuania's announcement of leaving the USSR, between the supporters of Lithuania's independence, the USSR Armed Forces and the Committee of National Salvation of the Lithuanian SSR. Airborne troops outside the city's television center.11.01.1991#8225402
January 11-13, 1991. Clashes in Vilnius after Lithuania's announcement of leaving the USSR, between the supporters of Lithuania's independence, the USSR Armed Forces and the Committee of National Salvation of the Lithuanian SSR.11.01.1991#8225400
January 11-13, 1991. Clashes in Vilnius after Lithuania's announcement of leaving the USSR, between the supporters of Lithuania's independence, the USSR Armed Forces and the Committee of National Salvation of the Lithuanian SSR. Protesters outside the Parliament of Lithuania.11.01.1991#8225396
January 11-13, 1991. Clashes in Vilnius after Lithuania's announcement of leaving the USSR, between the supporters of Lithuania's independence, the USSR Armed Forces and the Committee of National Salvation of the Lithuanian SSR.Rally outside the House of the Press in central Vilnius.11.01.1991#8225395
January 11-13, 1991. Clashes in Vilnius after Lithuania's announcement of leaving the USSR, between the supporters of Lithuania's independence, the USSR Armed Forces and the Committee of National Salvation of the Lithuanian SSR. Airborne troops outside the House of the Press in central Vilnius.11.01.1991#8225394
An ethnic and political conflict between the Azerbaijani and the Armenian people in Nagorno-Karabakh (Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic). The conflict between the two communities with long-term historical and cultural roots escalated during the Perestroika years as national movements in Armenia and Azerbaijan were on the rise. Soviet internal troops control the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh.02.11.1989#8140426
Officers of the Moscow Drug Police (now Main Drug Trafficking Directorate of the Russian Interior Ministry) exposing a drug den in a Moscow apartment. Detaining drug users.01.05.1989#8122100
Officers of the Moscow Drug Police (now Main Drug Trafficking Directorate of the Russian Interior Ministry) exposing a drug den in a Moscow apartment. Evidence.01.05.1989#8122091
Patrol officers of the RSFSR Interior Ministry's Main Directorate for Public Order Enforcement (now Russian Interior Ministry's Main Directorate for Public Order Enforcement) and ambulance doctors remove an intoxicated person from the street.05.07.1988#6641776
