Campaign posters of the "Free Donbass" and "Donetsk Republic" social movements on a street in Donetsk.26.10.2014#2517549
National protest action "For Labor, Wages and Social Guarantees" staged by the Federation of Russia's Independent Trade Unions on March 27, 1997. Broad strata of the population and representatives of political parties and movements took part in the protest. Supporters of the Labor Russia movement and the Communist Party at the rally.27.03.1997#3141603
National protest action "For Labor, Wages and Social Guarantees" staged by the Federation of Russia's Independent Trade Unions on March 27, 1997. Broad strata of the population and representatives of political parties and movements took part in the action. Participants in the rally.27.03.1997#3141601
Viktor Anpilov, Labor Russia movement leader, left, in a Women's Day public protest rally08.03.1994#82245
Viktor Anpilov, Labor Russia movement leader, addresses a Women's Day public protest rally08.03.1994#82244
On January 21, 1994 a rally in Lenin's memory took place on Paveletsky Railway Station in Moscow. Participants in the rally.21.01.1994#3131856
The events of September 21 - October 5, 1993 in Moscow. A post of the Supreme Soviet supporters at the House of Soviets.26.09.1993#3114509
On the opening day of the Constitutional conference supporters of opposition movements marched from Belorussian Railway Station Square to Lubyanskaya Square where they held a rally. Rally on Lubyanskaya Square.05.06.1993#3114491
May 1, 1993. A rally and march organized by representatives of the movements Labor Russia, Labor Moscow, the Russian Party of Communists and the Front of National Salvation. Clashes between participants in the demonstration and units of Moscow militia and riot police on Leninsky Prospekt in Moscow.01.05.1993#3114494
Moscow, May 1, 1993. Demonstration organized by the Federation of Free Trade Unions. Participants in the march.01.05.1993#3114462
Moscow, May 1, 1993. Demonstration staged by the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia. Column of the Moscow Trade Union Federation. Its Chairman Mikhail Shmakov is on the right.01.05.1993#3114461
April 14, 1993. The Military Collegium of the USSR Supreme Court starts a trial on the State Committee for the State of Emergency (GKChP). Supporters of the Labor Russia movement picket the court's building.14.04.1993#3114492
A parade and a rally on November 7, 1992, in Moscow, to mark the 75th anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution. Kaluzhskaya Square.07.11.1992#3226087
A parade and a rally on November 7, 1992, in Moscow, to mark the 75th anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution. head of the coordination council of Popular patriotic forces Gennady Zyuganov speaks on Manezhnaya Square.07.11.1992#3226086
A parade and a rally on November 7, 1992, in Moscow, to mark the 75th anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution. head of the coordination council of Popular patriotic forces Gennady Zyuganov speaks on Manezhnaya Square.07.11.1992#3226085
A parade and a rally on November 7, 1992, in Moscow, to mark the 75th anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution. Manezhnaya Square.07.11.1992#3226084
A parade and a rally on November 7, 1992, in Moscow, to mark the 75th anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution.07.11.1992#3226081
A parade and a rally on November 7, 1992, in Moscow, to mark the 75th anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution. representatives of the Japanese communists on Manezhnaya Square.07.11.1992#3226080
A parade and a rally on November 7, 1992, in Moscow, to mark the 75th anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution.07.11.1992#3226079
Viktor Anpilov, leader of the Labor Moscow movement, member of the Moscow Council, speaks at a rally outside the White House on the opening of the fifth session of the Russian Supreme Council.22.09.1992#6584493
May Day activities organized by the Moscow Federation of Trade Unions at Gorky Central Park of Culture and Recreation.01.05.1992#3054860
A rally near the building of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR organized by the Labor Moscow movement to demand the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Leader of the movement Viktor Anpilov speaks at the rally.04.03.1992#3049833
A rally near the building of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR organized by the Labor Moscow movement to demand the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.04.03.1992#3049832
The 1st Congress of USSR Germans in the Oktyabr Moscow cinema hall, convened on the issue of restoring an autonomous German republic in the Volga region (October 18-20, 1991). Historian, translator and public figure, author of works on the problems of Soviet Germans Viktor Diesendorf during his speech.18.10.1991#8606613
The 1st Congress of USSR Germans in the Oktyabr Moscow cinema hall, convened on the issue of restoring an autonomous German republic in the Volga region (October 18-20, 1991).18.10.1991#8606612
The 1st Congress of USSR Germans in the Oktyabr Moscow cinema hall, convened on the issue of restoring an autonomous German republic in the Volga region (October 18-20, 1991). Right: Chairman of the Renaissance Society of Soviet Germans Heinrich Grout with delegates.18.10.1991#8606611
The 1st Congress of USSR Germans in the Oktyabr Moscow cinema hall, convened on the issue of restoring an autonomous German republic in the Volga region (October 18-20, 1991).18.10.1991#8606610
The 1st Congress of USSR Germans in the Oktyabr Moscow cinema hall, convened on the issue of restoring an autonomous German republic in the Volga region (October 18-20, 1991).18.10.1991#8606609
The 1st Congress of USSR Germans in the Oktyabr Moscow cinema hall, convened on the issue of restoring an autonomous German republic in the Volga region (October 18-20, 1991). German historian Ingeborg Fleischhauer is seen speaking.18.10.1991#8606608
The 1st Congress of USSR Germans in the Oktyabr Moscow cinema hall, convened on the issue of restoring an autonomous German republic in the Volga region (October 18-20, 1991).18.10.1991#8606607
The 1st Congress of USSR Germans in the Oktyabr Moscow cinema hall, convened on the issue of restoring an autonomous German republic in the Volga region (October 18-20, 1991). Chairman of the Renaissance Society of Soviet Germans Heinrich Grout during a speech.18.10.1991#8606606
The 1st Congress of USSR Germans in the Oktyabr Moscow cinema hall, convened on the issue of restoring an autonomous German republic in the Volga region (October 18-20, 1991). An unauthorized rally of Moscow residents who oppose the formation of German autonomy on the Volga.18.10.1991#8606605
A May Day rally and concert organized by the Moscow Trade Unions Federation on May 1 near Moscow's Gorky Park.01.05.1991#3054831
March For Survival to Moscow, which was attended by representatives of labor teams from Gomel, Svetlogorsk, Narowlya, Mozyr and other regions of Belarus. The purpose of the event was to demand solution to the problems associated with the removal of the Chernobyl catastrophe consequences.08.07.1990#8818758
Kazimir Lavrinovich, lecturer in physics and mathematics at Kaliningrad State University, well-known researcher of the life and scientific work of the German scientist Friedrich Bessel.03.05.1990#8424004
The I Union Congress of Independent Labor Movements and Associations in Novokuznetsk. It was attended by representatives of the strike committees of Vorkuta, Kuzbass, Donbass, Karaganda and other regions of the USSR. A mass rally of solidarity with the decision of the workers' forum on the city square.30.04.1990#8445685
I Union Congress of Independent Labor Movements and Associations in Novokuznetsk. It was attended by representatives of the strike committees of Vorkuta, Kuzbass, Donbass, Karaganda and other regions of the USSR. Speech by Terry Fields, Member of the British Parliament, representative of the Labor Party.30.04.1990#8446054
I Union Congress of Independent Labor Movements and Associations in Novokuznetsk. It was attended by representatives of the strike committees of Vorkuta, Kuzbass, Donbass, Karaganda and other regions of the USSR. Speech by Nikolai Travkin, member of the Coordinating Council of the Interregional Deputy Group of the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR, People's Deputy of the RSFSR.30.04.1990#8446024
I Union Congress of Independent Labor Movements and Associations in Novokuznetsk. It was attended by representatives of the strike committees of Vorkuta, Kuzbass, Donbass, Karaganda and other regions of the USSR. People's Deputy of the RSFSR, clergyman Gleb Yakunin speaking at a solidarity rally.30.04.1990#8446021
1989 Soviet miners' strikes were the first mass strikes in the country. The first strike began in the spring of 1989 on Severnaya mine in Vorkuta which later turned into a hunger strike. Miners at Vorshagorskaya mine drafted a set of demands for the government delegation that arrived in Vorkuta. Pictured: V. Tarasov, chairman of the inter-mine strike committee.15.11.1989#6558232
The 1989 coal miners' strikes were the first open mass protest in the Soviet Union. The first strike began in spring 1989 at the Severnaya mine in the northern city of Vorkuta and later devolved to a hunger strike. Miners at Vorgashorskaya (now - JV Vorkutaugol Vorgashorskaya mine) worked out demands to be presented to the government commission that arrived in Vorkuta. Vorkuta mine Halmer-Yu (this mine's feasibility was questioned as the new Russia transitioned to a market economy; in 1993, the Khalmer-Yu mine and the miners' village were closed).15.11.1989#8129589
The Impuls Productive Cooperative produces several types of medical equipment among other things.10.09.1989#6732934
In 1989, USSR's top authorities including the 1st Congress of People's Deputies, lifted the political ban on private farming. The first farms with a different legal status spring up across the country. The French "Green farm" in the Voronezh region. G. Derderian's farming family receives guests.05.08.1989#6638966
In 1989, USSR's top authorities including the 1st Congress of People's Deputies, lifted the political ban on private farming. The first farms with a different legal status spring up across the country. The French "Green farm" in the Voronezh region. Farmer G. Derderian, left, and security guard G. Vyatchilin, center.05.08.1989#6638955
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
Left: Soviet jurist Vladimir Kudryavtsev, Vice President of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and Academy Member, meets with Venezuelan political activist Pompeyo Marquez, Member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Venezuela and co-founder of the leftist centrist social democratic party Movement towards Socialism, in Moscow.03.08.1989#6543878
300 miners of the Shevyakov mine refused to go down into the face. Thousands of people gathered on the central city square at a meeting. They demanded to revise labor compensation, improve meals etc. The initiative committee brought forward a life improvement programme of 41 clauses.11.07.1989#480625
Employees of the cooperative Bureau of Information and Tourism (BIT-Bureau) at the Sputnik International Tourism Bureau of the Moscow City Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League.18.06.1989#5539055
The People's Republic of Angola. This hospital in Luanda treats victims of a civil war that flared in Angola in 1975, and which involved three rival groups, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA) and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). This armed conflict ended only in 2002.25.04.1989#6739259
The People's Republic of Angola. This hospital in Luanda treats victims of a civil war that flared in Angola in 1975, and which involved three rival groups, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA) and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). This armed conflict ended only in 2002.25.04.1989#6739255
The People's Republic of Angola. People follow the political situation in their country where a civil war has been raging for many years in the hope for a better future. A civil war flared in Angola in 1975 and involved three rival groups, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA) and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). This armed conflict ended only in 2002.25.04.1989#6739254
The People's Republic of Angola. This hospital in Luanda treats victims of a civil war that flared in Angola in 1975, and which involved three rival groups, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA) and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). This armed conflict ended only in 2002.25.04.1989#6739249
The People's Republic of Angola. The victims of a civil war that flared up in 1975, and which involved three rival groups, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA) and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). This armed conflict ended only in 2002.25.04.1989#6739248
In March 1989, workers of section 9 at the Severnaya coal mine in Vorkuta went on strike that became a hunger strike, The protesters demanded no work on Sundays, a six-hour work day, cuts in management staff and higher wages. For three days, the miners refused to work thus securing a freeze of decisions on reviewing bonus regulations. Miners' uniforms hung untouched for over two weeks.15.03.1989#6616575
