Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin8 December 1991
Signs the Belovezha Agreement with the leaders of Ukraine and Belarus, declaring the Soviet Union ended and creating the CIS.
Russia · Government / Government of Russia. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Signs the Belovezha Agreement with the leaders of Ukraine and Belarus, declaring the Soviet Union ended and creating the CIS.
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