Russian History: 

Post-Soviet Period (1991 - Present)

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The August 1991 Coup in the Soviet Union - (dead link)
A Minute-by-Minute Chronology

Boris Yeltsin
A hyperlinked biography by Dmitri Gusev

Yeltsin's Address Dismissing the Supreme Soviet and Congress of Peoples' Deputies - (dead link)
(National Television Address)

Beyond the Fall
The Former Soviet Bloc in Transition, 1989-1999
"For 10 years following the collapse of the Berlin Wall, TIME contract photographer Anthony Suau has traveled the lands of the former Soviet bloc. In the hundreds of powerful images and audio commentaries that follow, Suau documents in stark detail the people of that region as they shed their former skin and head into an unknown future."

Carnegie Moscow Center - (dead link)

• Press Conference with Moscow Carnegie Center Official Aleksei Malashenko - (dead link)
  "The Islamic Threat. Myth or Reality." - 09/10/01
• Islam in the Post-Soviet Newly Independent States: The View from Within (Full-text in Russian - Contents and summary in English)
  Edited by Alexei Malashenko and Martha Brill Olcott

Chechnya - (dead link)
Federation of American Scientists - Military Analysis Network
Includes : New Reports ; Background, Maps, History ; Solidarity Groups ; Russian Weapons ; Related Websites ; Other News Coverage.

Civil War in Moscow, October '93
Includes Description of Events ; Pictures

The Constitution of the Russian Federation
Ratified December 12, 1993

Founding Act between Russia and NATO
Signed May 27, 1997

Eurasian Links Galore! - (dead link) "This site features more than 1,500 selected links and articles on Eurasia, the former Soviet Union, and the Russian language. Some links require KOI8 Cyrillic fonts or 1251 Windows-based Cyrillic fonts."
By Douglas and Colleen Hartman

Human Rights Watch

• The 'Dirty War' in Chechnya: Forced Disappearances, Torture, and Summary Executions (March 2001)

The Jamestown Foundation - (dead link)
"...through its programs, encourages democracy, civil liberty and free enterprise in Russia and throughout the former Soviet Union. Jamestown's publications give its readers a realistic, accurate, and unbiased view of events in the Russian Federation, the Baltic States, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and Central Asia and the Caucasus."

Prague Watchdog
"...is a new on-line service that will report and disseminate information on the northern Caucasus region, focusing on three specific areas: human rights, humanitarian aid conditions and media access and coverage."

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