Head of "Fair Russia" Sergei Mironov and LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky (right) at the plenary session of the lower chamber of parliament.09.09.2011#956592
The propaganda poster "Motherland is calling!", by Irakly Moiseyevich Toidze. A reproduction. 1941. Paper, charcoal, gouache. The exhibition "Russian poster masterpieces", the Central Artists' House.01.03.2000#779023
The propaganda poster "Lenin was alive, Lenin is alive, Lenin will be alive!", by Viktor Semyonovich Ivanov. A reproduction. The exhibition called "Russian poster masterpieces", the Central Artists' House.01.03.2000#779022
The propaganda poster "Help", by Dmitry Stakhiyevich Moor. 1921. A reproduction. The exhibition called "Russian poster masterpieces", the Central Artists' House.01.03.2000#779021
Representatives of opposition forces marching along central streets of Moscow. May 9, 1998.09.05.1998#788423
Representatives of opposition forces marching along central streets of Moscow. May 9, 1998.09.05.1998#788422
Labor Russia movement staging a demonstration. A march of representatives of the opposition forces along Moscow's central streets. May 9, 1998.09.05.1998#788421
A rally, organized by opposition parties, to mark the 80th anniversary of the October revolution.07.11.1997#788418
A rally, organized by opposition parties, to mark the 80th anniversary of the October revolution.07.11.1997#788417
Opposition parties holding a rally dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the October Revolution.07.11.1997#788416
A demonstration and march of representatives of the opposition forces marking Defender of the Fatherland Day.23.02.1997#788397
Minister of Culture of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam Hoang Minh Giam delivering a speech at a meeting of Indochina commission. The World Peace Congress in Moscow.27.10.1993#793490
The Second Congress of the National Salvation Front in the Moscow Parliamentary Center (July 24-25, 1993). Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Anatoly Lukyanov (second right) during the meeting.24.07.1993#8618306
Moscow. Members of a nationalist organization at the entrance to the National Exhibition of Economic Achievements (VDNKh).01.06.1993#8617814
A rally in support of the 6th Congress of People's Deputies of the former USSR. A participant in the rally with the banner of the Soviet Union.17.03.1992#697629
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
The Kazan Federal Cathedral (The Cathedral of Kazan Mother of God) built in 1801-1811 by architect Andrei Voronikhin. The cathedral was inactive between 1932 and 1991 and was home to the Religion and Atheism History Museum of the USSR Academy of Sciences.15.07.1991#6609797
Members of the US International Society for Krishna Consciousness members visit the USSR. Meeting of Hinduism followers with the guru of the organization Harikesh Swami in the House of Political Education in the center of Moscow.01.07.1991#8612550
Members of the US International Society for Krishna Consciousness members visit the USSR. Guru of the organization Harikesh Swami meets with his followers in the House of Political Education in the center of Moscow.01.07.1991#8612549
Members of the US International Society for Krishna Consciousness members visit the USSR. Meeting of Hinduism followers with the guru of the organization Harikesh Swami in the House of Political Education in the center of Moscow.01.07.1991#8612548
Vladimir Petukhov, research associate at the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party, takes part in a roundtable discussion, Russia's Place and Role in the Reformed Union.10.10.1990#8334847
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union (currently of Russia), takes part in a roundtable discussion, Russia's Place and Role in the Reformed Union.10.10.1990#8334846
Natalya Tikhonova, research associate at the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party, takes part in a roundtable discussion, Russia's Place and Role in the Reformed Union.10.10.1990#8334845
A meeting of the Democratic Platform Coordinating Council. Leaders of the Democratic Platform: Rector of the Moscow Higher Party School Vladislav Shostakovsky and teacher of the Ordzhonikidze Moscow Aviation Institute Vladimir Lysenko.01.06.1990#3049732
Vadim Churbanov, Ph.D. in Philosophy, Head of the Sector of the Ideological Department of the Central Committee of the CPSU.10.05.1990#8423878
Leningrad. The first stage of the Constituent Congress of the Russian Communist Party, part of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Following a discussion, the delegates passed a resolution of the Constituent Congress that virtually acknowledged the establishment of the Russian Communist Party as part of the CPSU. Photo: Veteran CPSU member Georgy Ivanov, President of the Union of Togliatti Veterans, speaks.21.04.1990#8421223
A public rally in support of democratic elections to local Councils of People's Deputies.25.02.1990#793534
A sculptor's workshop: busts of former Soviet leaders Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev.21.01.1990#6727231
The second Congress of USSR People's Deputies (December 12-24, 1989). General Secretary of the USSR Communist Party Central Committee, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev with the delegates of the congress during a break between sessions. Kremlin Palace of Congresses (now the State Kremlin Palace).22.12.1989#6633993
The 2nd Congress of USSR People's Deputies (December 12-24, 1989). Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, speaks.22.12.1989#6645384
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 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). The deputy asks a question from the floor during the discussion. Kremlin Palace of Congresses (now the State Kremlin Palace).20.12.1989#6633990
The 2nd Congress of USSR People's Deputies (December 12-24, 1989). The delegates discussed the abolition of the Soviet Constitution's Article 6 on the guiding role of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Nikolai Travkin, a member of the Coordinating Council of the Inter-Regional Deputies Group of the Congress of USSR People's Deputies.20.12.1989#6645391
The 2nd Congress of USSR People's Deputies (December 12-24, 1989). The delegates discussed the abolition of the Soviet Constitution's Article 6 on the guiding role of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. People's Deputy Gennady Filshin, DSc (Economics), speaks. Background left: Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Far right: Anatoly Lukyanov, First Deputy Speaker of the USSR Supreme Soviet (Parliament).15.12.1989#6645393
Lana Gogoberidze, Georgian film director and screenwriter, People's Actress of the Georgian SSR. In the late 1980s, she left her job to go into policy.06.11.1989#6566939
Nikolai Medvedev, Greek-born Lithuanian and Soviet politician (real name Varikopulos), deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Was active in Sajudis (a social and political organization in Lithuania, which led the former Soviet republic's secession and restoration of the independence of the Republic of Lithuania in 1988-1990; originally, the Lithuanian Perestroika Movement).01.11.1989#6565248
Vladimir Shenayev, Deputy Director of USSR Academy of Sciences' European Studies Institute.30.10.1989#6561816
Rein Veidemann, one of the leaders of the Estonian Popular Front. The Estonian Popular Front was founded in April 1988 to support perestroika. Formally, it was not a political party but a national movement.30.10.1989#6561811
Front left: Vladimir Semyonov, First Secretary of the Grodno Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Belorussia, people's deputy of the Soviet Union.27.10.1989#6560652
The performance Caligula, based on the play by Albert Camus, also called Fantastic, on the stage of Planetarium Theater, established at the Moscow Planetarium in 1989. Directed by Oleg Osetinsky and starring French actor Laurent Chanteau.27.10.1989#6558239
French actor Laurent Chantreau, background center, as Caligula in the stage play "Caligula," based on the eponymous play by Albert Camus and directed by Oleg Osetinsky at Moscow Planetarium's Planetarium Theater (Fantastic Theater), which was opened in 1989.27.10.1989#6558236
In 1944, during the Great Patriotic War, Crimean Tatars were forcefully relocated from the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic to Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, based on several incidents of involvement of Crimean Tatars in collaborationist squads that fought on Nazi Germany's side and cooperation with occupationist authorities, although international law did not stipulate that an entire ethnic group can bear collective liability for actions of its members. In November 1989, the USSR Supreme Soviet recognized the deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944 unlawful and criminal. The Crimean Tatars deported during the war started to return to their home region. At the same time, some members of the Crimean Tatar ethnic group started taking over plots of land without authorization, which the Crimean Tatars called voluntary recovery. Participants in the conflict. Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Crimean Region.27.10.1989#6558235
Actor Mikhail Mamayev as Court Poet in the stage play "Caligula," based on the eponymous play by Albert Camus and directed by Oleg Osetinsky at Moscow Planetarium's Planetarium Theater (Fantastic Theater), which was opened in 1989.27.10.1989#6558230
French actor Laurent Chantreau as Caligula in the stage play "Caligula," based on the eponymous play by Albert Camus and directed by Oleg Osetinsky at Moscow Planetarium's Planetarium Theater (Fantastic Theater), which was opened in 1989.27.10.1989#6558228
USSR Deputy Minister of Justice Vladimir Gubarev, left, and Observer of the Novosti Press Agency (today Rossiya Segodnya) Alexander Drabkin.26.10.1989#6633987
The Law on Cooperation of May 26, 1988 made it possible to establish private companies in the Soviet Union. The cooperative sector and private businesses started developing rapidly. Creative individuals, including musicians, artists, writers and journalists, did not shy away from commercial operations either. Vladimir Maximov conceived the popular television programs Public Opinion and Music Ring. In 1989, he and his wife Tamara Maximova established TV-Neva, the country's first private independent television company.19.10.1989#6556168
The Law on Cooperation of May 26, 1988 made it possible to establish private companies in the Soviet Union. The cooperative sector and private businesses started developing rapidly. Creative individuals, including musicians, artists, writers and journalists, did not shy away from commercial operations either. Vladimir Maximov conceived the popular television programs Public Opinion and Music Ring. In 1989, he and his wife Tamara Maximova established TV-Neva, the country's first private independent television company.19.10.1989#6556166
Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Yury Kuznetsov, First Secretary of the Petrozavodsk City Committee of the Soviet Communist Party.17.10.1989#6555077
The Lithuanian SSR. Kiastutis Zalieckas, First Secretary of Vilnius City Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.17.10.1989#6555074