Signing of agreement ending Soviet Union and creating CIS

Title

Signing of agreement ending Soviet Union and creating CIS

Genre

News report; News bulletin

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1991

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Duration

00:00:50

Description

Clayre Gribben reads the 1 o’clock news with Andrew Harding reporting from Moscow on the signing by eleven Soviet republics in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan of an agreement declaring an official end to the Soviet Union and creating a new Commonweath of Independent States.

Contributors

Clayre Gribben; Andrew Harding

Keywords

USSR; Political reform; Communism; Moscow; CIS countries; Alma-Ata; Kazakhstan

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