(Reuters) - Here is a timeline of some key events over the nearly seven years that Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on Tuesday at age 91, held power in the Soviet Union. (Reuters) – Here is a ...

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But what was the Soviet Union, which countries were in it, who were the leaders, and why did it collapse? Here’s everything you need to know. The Soviet Union, or USSR, was a state that was ...

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, one cosmonaut, Sergei Krikalev, was temporarily stranded aboard Mir following the collapse. And while Mir survived several years after the collapse of the ...

Aug 30 (Reuters) - Here is a timeline of some key events over the nearly seven years that Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on Tuesday at age 91, held power in the Soviet Union. read more March 1985 ...