The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is an interstate association of the former republics of the Soviet Union20.08.2010#743382
The 22nd session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union of Belarus and Russia chaired by Gennady Seleznyov. The participants in the session held at the State Duma of the Russian Federation.14.01.2003#6470545
Vice President of the Russian Federation Alexander Rutskoi, 2nd right, before a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Russian Federation.05.05.1992#6536807
The 6th Congress of People's Deputies of the Russian Federation, April 6-21, 1992. From left: Minister of Foreign Affairs of the RSFSR Andrei Kozyrev and First Deputy Prime Minister of the RSFSR Gennady Burbulis before a session.06.04.1992#6536814
Signing the Agreement on Economic Community by President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev and presidents of eight union republics, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakh SSR, Kyrgyz Republic, RSFSR, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. St. George's Hall of the Moscow Kremlin. October 18, 1991. President of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan and President of Russia Boris Yeltsin, left.17.10.1991#8274948
The State Council of the Soviet Union. A meeting of the State Council under the President of the Soviet Union to discuss the signing of the inter-republican economic treaty. Kremlin. October 11, 1991. Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev during the meeting.11.10.1991#2891955
The State Council of the Soviet Union. A meeting of the State Council under the President of the Soviet Union to discuss the signing of the inter-republican economic treaty. Kremlin. October 11, 1991. Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk and President of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic Nursultan Nazarbayev (right) during the meeting.11.10.1991#2891954
The State Council of the Soviet Union. A meeting of the State Council under the President of the Soviet Union to discuss the signing of the inter-republican economic treaty. Kremlin. October 11, 1991. Soviet Defense Minister Yevgeny Shaposhnikov during the meeting.11.10.1991#2891952
The State Council of the Soviet Union. A meeting of the State Council under the President of the Soviet Union to discuss the signing of the inter-republican economic treaty. Kremlin. October 11, 1991. Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev during the meeting.11.10.1991#2891950
The State Council of the Soviet Union. A meeting of the State Council under the President of the Soviet Union to discuss the signing of the inter-republican economic treaty. Kremlin. October 11, 1991. Economic Adviser to Soviet President Nikolai Petrakov and Deputy Chairman of the Inter-Republican Economic Committee, member of the Political Consultative Committee under the President of the USSR Grigory Yavlinsky (right) during the meeting.11.10.1991#2891949
The State Council of the Soviet Union. A meeting of the State Council under the President of the Soviet Union to discuss the signing of the inter-republican economic treaty. Kremlin. October 11, 1991. From right: Azerbaijani President Ayaz Mutalibov, President of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic Nursultan Nazarbayev, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk during the meeting.11.10.1991#2891948
The State Council of the Soviet Union. A meeting of the State Council under the President of the Soviet Union to discuss the signing of the inter-republican economic treaty. Kremlin. October 11, 1991. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev presides over the meeting.11.10.1991#2891947
The State Council of the USSR. The meeting of the State Council under the President of the Soviet Union to discuss the signing of an inter-republican economic treaty. Kremlin. October 11, 1991. From left: President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Belarus Stanislav Shushkevich, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.11.10.1991#2891945
Nikolai Travkin, Member of the Coordinating Council of the Inter-regional Deputy Group of the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR.18.12.1990#8225243
President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, left, meets with representatives of the General Confederation of Trade Unions.07.10.1990#8139795
President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, far center, meets with representatives of the General Confederation of Trade Unions.07.10.1990#8139794
Gennady Yanayev, a Soviet statesman, Communist Party and political activist and Chairman of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions.20.04.1990#6644487
The inaugural meeting of Kemerovo's office of the Democratic Union opposition party. From left: one of the party founders Alexander Eliovich and the party activist Fred Anadenko attend the meeting.15.03.1990#8414123
A delegate asks a question at the inaugural meeting of Kemerovo's office of the Democratic Union opposition party.15.03.1990#8413995
The Congress of Komsomol organizations of the RSFSR, February 15-18, 1990. Secretary of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League, chairman of the RSFSR Supreme Soviet's Committee on Youth Affairs, and chairman of the congress' organizing committee, Stanislav Smirnov, right, speaks to a correspondent of Novosti Press Agency (now Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency).15.02.1990#6674709
The 45th meeting of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon) in the People's Republic of Bulgaria, January 9-10, 1990. Alexander Drabkin, observer of the Novosti Press Agency (APN, now Rossiya Segodnya), interviews Nikolai Ryzhkov, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers and leader of the Soviet delegation, right.09.01.1990#6671038
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
Norwegian archaeologist, adventurist and author Thor Heyerdahl visits Lomonosov Moscow State University. Meeting with students after presenting Thor Heyerdahl, left, with a diploma and a medal of the honorary doctor of Lomonosov Moscow State University.27.11.1989#6618994
Norwegian archaeologist, adventurist and author Thor Heyerdahl visits Lomonosov Moscow State University. Photo with members of the university's Academic Council after presenting Thor Heyerdahl, third right, with a diploma and a medal of the honorary doctor of Lomonosov Moscow State University. Center: Lomonosov Moscow State University Rector Anatoly Logunov. Left: Viktor Sadovnichy, First Deputy Rector and Deputy Head of the Department of Engineering and Mathematics for Research.27.11.1989#6618989
Members of the United States House of Representatives Committee on Armed Forces visit the Livadia Palace where the Yalta Conference took place in February 1945. Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.03.07.1989#8174941
Members of the United States House of Representatives Committee on Armed Forces visit the Baikonur Space Launch Center in Kazakhstan.02.07.1989#8174946
Members of the United States House of Representatives Committee on Armed Forces visit Kazakhstan.02.07.1989#8174940
Members of the United States House of Representatives Committee on Armed Forces visit the Academy of the USSR Armed Fores' General Headquarters.01.07.1989#8174939
Members of the United States House of Representatives Committee on Armed Forces during a visit to the Soviet Union lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow.01.07.1989#8174938
Yury Lipatov, Second Secretary of the Ramenskoye City Committee of the USSR Communist Party.29.03.1989#6535183
The meeting between Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, and the youth of Moscow and the Moscow Region at Moscow Palace of Youth on October 29, 1988, timed to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League. Participants in the meeting listen to Mikhail Gorbachev's speech.29.10.1988#6577443
The meeting between Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, and the youth of Moscow and the Moscow Region at Moscow Palace of Youth on October 29, 1988, timed to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League. Participants in the meeting listen to Mikhail Gorbachev's speech.29.10.1988#6577437
The meeting between Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, and the youth of Moscow and the Moscow Region at Moscow Palace of Youth on October 29, 1988, timed to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League. Participants in the meeting listen to Mikhail Gorbachev's speech.29.10.1988#6577435
The meeting between Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, and the youth of Moscow and the Moscow Region at Moscow Palace of Youth on October 29, 1988, timed to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League. Participants during a break in the meeting.29.10.1988#6577433
The meeting between Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, and the youth of Moscow and the Moscow Region at Moscow Palace of Youth on October 29, 1988, timed to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League. Participants during a break in the meeting.29.10.1988#6577432
A rally organized by the Sajudis political organization in support of Lithuania's exit from the Soviet Union. Vingis Park in Vilnius. Soviet Lithuanian film director and screenwriter, member of the Sajudis Seim Arunas Zebriunas.23.08.1988#6556253
Soviet Orientalist and professor Dmitry Petrov speaks during a board meeting of the USSR - Japan Society.01.07.1988#6585723
Japanese professor Heihachiro speaks during a board meeting of the USSR - Japan Society.01.07.1988#6585714
Vyacheslav Molotov (1890- 1986 gg.) - Soviet statesman and party leader. Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars 1930-1941 gg .; People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the USSR 1939-1946 gg .; Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR 1946-1949 gg. and 1953-1956 years. He was a member of the inner circle of Stalin. Reproduction. Of 1930-1940.01.07.1988#2854795
Socialist Republic of Romania. Doctor of Physics M.L. Pascu is seen here next to the Belas device.01.06.1988#6288075
Polish People's Republic. The chief industrial engineer of the Polon electronics plant.01.06.1988#6288070
People's Republic of Bulgaria. The construction of the 6th generating unit at the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant.01.06.1988#6288069
Polish People's Republic. A. Brzezinski, an operator of Warsaw's Polkolor tube-assembly factory, during work.01.06.1988#6288068
Socialist Republic of Romania. Employees of the Bucharest Institute of Information Technology at work.01.06.1988#6288064
Polish People's Republic. Fitters of industrial boilers made by Fakel plant during work.01.06.1988#6288063
Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. Skoda automobile factory engineer V. Sopeistal, second right, gives a TV interview.01.06.1988#6288060
Socialist Republic of Romania. Employees of the Bucharest Institute of Information Technology V. Vieru and M. Vaslan work in the computer laboratory.01.06.1988#6288058
Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze speaks at a joint meeting of foreign affairs commissions of the Council of the Union and the Council of Nationalities of the USSR Supreme Soviet (Parliament) on ratifying the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty, formally Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles), signed December 8, 1987 in Washington DC by General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev and President of the United States Ronald Reagan.09.02.1988#5742272
An official visit by General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev to the USA, December 7-10, 1987. A news conference by members of the Soviet delegation. 3rd right: Moskovskiye Novosti newspaper editor-in-chief Yegor Yakovlev.10.12.1987#5702703
An official visit by General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev to the USA, December 7-10, 1987. Correspondents make photos of the high officials cortege passing by.07.12.1987#5702605
Mikhail Nenashev, Chairman of the USSR State Committee on Publishing and Printing Industry and Book Trade, second left, at a book fair.10.11.1987#5652853
Eighth session of the USSR Supreme Soviet of the 11th convocation. Grand Kremlin Palace. At the rostrum: Deputy of the USSR Supreme Soviet, First Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers and Chairman of its Buro on Social Development Nikolai Talyzin.01.10.1987#2721857
Vladimir Khodyrev, Chair of the Executive Committee of the Leningrad City Council of People's Deputies.25.04.1987#8534761
Vladimir Khodyrev, Chair of the Executive Committee of the Leningrad City Council of People's Deputies.25.04.1987#8534760
The Grand Kremlin Palace, November 17-19, 1986. The 6th session of the USSR Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the 11th convocation. Photo: Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Deputy of the USSR Supreme Soviet Anatoly Dobrynin takes the floor.17.11.1986#5786043
The Days of GDR Culture in the USSR marking the 35th anniversary of establishing the German Democratic Republic. Soviet Minister of Culture Pyotr Demichev, standing left, welcomes a GDR delegation at the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of the USSR, now Russia.10.10.1984#6001047
