In 1991 communists staged a coup (overthrow) against president Gorbachev and his reforms. The newly elected president of the Russian Republic, Boris Yeltsin, occupied the White House in Moscow, and opposed the coup. Moscow citizens rallied behind Yeltsin and within three days the coup collapsed. At the end of 1991, the Soviet Union fell apart and the Russian Federation, led by Yeltsin, was born.
15 republics declared independence and Soviet Union no longer existed.
No. Russia's economy has become extremely unstable. Source: http://carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=42182
I just learned this. Communists wanted to spread communism. And russias army was scary. USA was like screw that, we're not going to bow to anybody. NUKES. But russia responds quickly, and because they have a single party communist government at the time which pretty much means no elections, they have exellent spys. So Russia discovers the nuke tech. from the USA then the cold war is on. Not helped by the cultural revolution in China; USA backed the side that lost. Basically the communists won.
Moscow
armenia
russias fav food
Duma
baseball
russias fav food
Moscow or in Russian its Moskva
the Kremline in Moscow
Vladmir Phutin (or Putin)
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Russia's population is 140702000 in 2011
everything except corn.